question: should toys be part of Pd distribution?

Mark Danks mdanks at Stormfront.com
Thu Feb 3 02:42:08 CET 2000


  Assuming that new releases get folded in quickly, this sounds good to me.
Miller and I deliberately kept Pd and GEM separate, although it always
causes confusion to new users.

  This solves two of the big problems: making sure that the individual
packages are always available and the time commitment on the authors' parts
to deal with it.

Later, Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl MacMillan [mailto:karlmac at peabody.jhu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 5:22 PM
> To: msp at ucsd.edu
> Cc: pd-list at iem.mhsg.ac.at
> Subject: Re: question: should toys be part of Pd distribution?
> 
> 
> Well, from the response to this so far and from talking to my 
> colleagues
> that are interested in PD but still haven't taken the plunge, it seems
> that nice integrated, ready to go binaries with all the 
> goodies would be
> welcomed.  Perhaps what is needed is someone to compile all this stuff
> for all the platforms into, to use the linux jargon, 
> distributions.  As
> I have access to linux and windows with compilers and should 
> have access
> to an O2 soon (and have the time), I would be happy to do 
> this if people
> are interested.  This way the individual packages can continue to be
> mantained by their authors and released according to their own
> schedules, but end users can get everything they want.  Let me know.
> 
> Karl
> 
> Miller Puckette wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Pd-ers,
> > 
> > would it be more convenient for you if I integrated "toys" 
> (the pitch
> > tracker, expr, and other really useful things) as part of the Pd
> > distribution?  It would make the distribution grow by 150K or so...
> > 
> > I'm raising the question because I'm writing a phase object 
> for sampling
> > (which someone suggested here a year or so ago) and want to 
> put something
> > in "soundfile-tools" in the pd distribution which uses the 
> new object...
> > it seems as if that would be a good reason to put "toys" in 
> the distribution
> > of Pd...
> > 
> > cheers
> > Miller
> 
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