[PD-dev] plans for next Pd release

[Christof Ressi]

> I would hope that the GUI vs. audio engine separation for libpd would 
> be finalized
I think the GUI vs audio seperation has not even started yet :-)

However, I would agree that this is a very important long term goal, for 
all the reasons you've listed.

Christof

On 15.07.2021 11:57, Max wrote:
> Hi Miller,
>
> I'm very enthusiastic about the FreeRTOS port, this would open so many 
> possibilities. I think FreeRTOS will run on the RPi too and possibly 
> also on the Teensy.
> For the tooltips, I would hope that the GUI vs. audio engine 
> separation for libpd would be finalized so that alternative GUI 
> frameworks can be contributed. Thinking of the endless discussions of 
> fontsize and cross-platform rendering issues in Tk, maybe that effort 
> is better invested in taking inspiration from PurrDatas SVG rendering. 
> I think Pd would benefit from the ability to write custom GUIs ans 
> ship them like abstractions. That would close the gap to webaudio too, 
> which works already today via libpd and emscripten - just imagine the 
> possibilities of a native browser friendly GUI on top of it.
>
> M.
>
>
> On 13.07.21 19:22, Miller Puckette via Pd-dev wrote:
>> (re-send - I had sent to pd-dev at iem.at but that now seems to be 
>> defunct...)
>>
>> To Pd dev -
>> I'm going to try to get the next Pd release (0.52) out over the next 
>> month
>> or two.  My personal priorities for this release would be putting in 
>> a message
>> backtrace mechanism (by overriding canvas_connect and pd_bind to go 
>> through
>> small proxy objects; this will have to be done at load time I think) and
>> to go back and try to figure out how to do tooltips without adding 
>> cruft to
>> the inlet structure.  (There's an ancient source-patch to provide 
>> tooltips
>> by Chris McCormichadn Guenter Geiger that I plan to start with -
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/264/).
>>
>> Before doing that I want to do some reorganizing - in porting Pd to 
>> FreeRTOS
>> (so I can run it on an Espressif LyraT board, which I think takes 
>> only about
>> 10 or 20% of the current that a Pi needs) I found out that I had to move
>> a few functions from one file to another.
>>
>> This might break some PRs, so... first of all would be to identify 
>> whatever
>> PRs are ready to merge so I can do that before I make incompatible 
>> changes.
>> Of course "stable development branch" first... then Dan's soundfile 
>> updates...
>> then what?
>>
>> PS more ideas of mine (among many):
>> hot-reloading externs via a message to Pd
>> use a "unix binding" socket between Pd and pd-gui instead of localhost
>> generalize number/symbol box to allow displaying entire messages or 
>> lists
>>
>> cheers
>> Miller
>>
>>
>>
>>
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