[PD-dev] including [dssi~] in Pd-extended

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Feb 28 23:19:01 CET 2006


Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> GemLibs is the perfect example.  Its a collection of useful libraries  
> which Gem uses.  That code is not pd-specific (FTGL, liborb,  
> particle, etc), but are third-party libraries.  But the gem devs  
> found it useful to manage that source code in CVS.

Which I find questionable, too, but at least these aren't plugins as
dssi/ladspa, and they aren't whole applications like fluidsynth, and
they are used as integral parts of Gem.pd_*. So they are similar to
the role Portaudio plays in Pd (and Particle seems to be gone from its
old URL anyway, so users cannot download it from somwhere else.)

> And it comes down to this: what harm is there to importing the
> sources?

I see the danger of a maintainance nightmare or at least an additional
burden for administrators. We didn't even manage to find a clean
organization of the pd-related stuff so far and thus we should not try
to carry even more weight.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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