[PD-dev] pd.tk patches

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Hans-Christoph Steiner said :
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> On Dec 25, 2008, at 10:27 PM, [*~] wrote:
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>> Hi there:
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>> Hans-Christoph Steiner said :
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>>> Here's how I see it:  I think we should first reorganize the code and
>>> streamline the GUI.  I think we can change things that are only in  
>>> the
>>> current u_main.tk.  Then once that is complete, we can start making 
>>> more
>>> substantial changes.  So things like updating the preference pane  
>>> GUIs
>>> (Path, Startup, Audio, Midi), reorganizing the key bindings and  
>>> menus,
>>> cleaning up the Pd window and Help Browser, etc.
>>>
>>> What in particular did you have in mind?
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>> what i meant is more like this: patch only makes sense (in my head)  
>> when diffing between two similar files, or files derived from one and 
>> another. starting with a new file might be difficult for the main 
>> branch to eventually include it. hope this makes sense.
>>
>> I am happy with either way, i am just mentioning this because if we  
>> are thinking of having the main branch graudally take up the changes in 
>> pd-devel, then we need to think about how best for the changes to be 
>> ingetrated.
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> Yeah, that make sense.  I talked with Miller at the last Linux Audio  
> Conference about this. He said there that he would be willing to take  
> the whole file rather than a diff.  I hope that it is still the case, I 
> forget whether I mentioned this again in this round of discussion.
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> Just reorganizing the file would create such a massive diff that I don't 
> think it would be very readable.

yeah, after taking a look of what you submitted, i also realized that even just dividing up the original code would result to pretty big patches anyways. 

cheers

chun

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> .hc
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>> cheers
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>> chun
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>>> .hc
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>>> On Dec 25, 2008, at 8:11 AM, [*~] wrote:
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>>>> Hi all:
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>>>> One question just occured to me on starting with a minimal pd.tk in
>>>> the new pd-devel is that, how would we then make incremental patches
>>>> againest the main branch? i seem to remember incremental changes  
>>>> was in
>>>> discussion in previous thread on pd-devel.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> chun
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