[PD-dev] "imports" section of CVS

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
>>If you just want a couple externals, grab them from the Pd-extended
>>binaries.  We need to stop thinking of Pd as lots of separate projects,
> 
> 
> please accept, that this is not an option for me!
> 
> i do think that pd-extended is great work, but i don't consider myself
> as the target user.
> i am happy with using (miller's) pd and some externals which i find
> useful. i am not at all interested in needing to download a 80MB image
> instead of just some MB of sources.
> additionally some sources get customized (patched).

Why would you not want to use Pd-extended?  It would benefit everyone if 
  the IEM apps where part of Pd-extended, you guys do some great work 
which should be more widely distributed.  Plus, it would make it less 
work for you to release your apps.  It would not be hard to make a 
stripped down version of Pd-extended to distribute Pd apps.  In fact, I 
think this could be an approach to making "compiled" Pd apps.

It could work like this:  download Pd-extended, open your app written in 
Pd, then select the menu option which checks the deps of that app, and 
then strips out everything else, and renames the Pd-extended app to the 
App name.  That is quite doable.

> and the application is supposed to run on both 32bit and 64bit
> platforms. there is no 64bit pd-extended.

Let's make a 64-bit Pd-extended then!  Again, lots of people will 
benefit when we join forces.

>>and think of it as a programming platform, like Java.  The strength is
>>in the collection of all the code.
> 
> 
> last time i did a java project, i had to download external libraries,
> because they were not included in jav (1.4 that was)
> 
> 
> again pd-extended is great. but not everything is pd-extended.
> and should not be!

Anything that is a useful library should be included in Pd-extended, 
just like Java.  Its definitely grown a lot over the years. 
Applications are another story.  Its good to have some as examples, but 
not every Pd application under the sun should be added.

The above Pd-compiling idea could work for that...

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