[PD-dev] svn:externals, pd-extended, SVN and the goal of it all

[marius schebella]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> So what should be the core mission of the pure-data repository?  It  
> looks like it is time to have that discussion again.  I see it as a  
> gathering of code and docs that are intended to be built using a  
> common build system (aka Pd-extended build system).
> 
> As for Pd-extended, I think it is a mistake (almost all my fault)  
> including so many things in the package.  It is now clear to me that  
> makes more sense to have a distro that includes only the very stable  
> libraries, then to make Pd fully support external libdirs, including  
> shared libs, help patches, example patches, manuals, etc.

I very very much like that idea! I think there should be a pd-distro 
where externals are only added if they are available on win, macos and 
linux and if they have manuals/helppatches support. and the whole distro 
comes with a toc and tutorials...
count me in for that!
marius.

> 
> I think then there could be a simple distro system like Eclipse has  
> for managing plugins. (Basically, there is a simple format for  
> posting a library to a website.  The user then adds the repo URL to  
> the program, which then has a browser for all available installation  
> options and updates).
> 
> I guess this was a bit vague and wandering, but it seems that there  
> is a discussion that needs to be had.
> 
> .hc
> 
> 
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