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

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 
>>GemLibs is the perfect example.  Its a collection of useful libraries  

i don't think so.

>>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.)

wow true, i haven't yet noticed that dave's homepage went to nirvana.
last time i checked (fall 2005) it was still there.


GemLibs need a major cleanup anyhow.
imo, they are there for historic reasons only.
at least on linux, i _never_ use GemLibs.

"particle" has been incorporated into the Gem-sources itself, so the
version in GemLibs is not used at all.
the same goes for "glm".
afaik, the same goes for "darwinStuff".
afaik, "liborb" has not been tested for years (most likely nobody has a
SpaceOrb); i doubt whether current Gem releases still use it (probably
on w32...) and i don't know whether it works at all.
as for FTGL/freetype2, i think it would be better to remove them from
the GemLibs too (but it is so hard to delete directories in CVS...)

mfg.asd.r
IOhannes