[PD] Call for Unified Libraries

[Joschi]

This is a good idea, anything to ease the installation of a good PD
system for the end user is great.  I do think that the challenge of this
is that it is going to take a committed team to keep up with all the
parrallel development that goes on in the pd community over a long
period of time.  There is no point in starting such a project unless you
are willing to spend 5-10 hours a week for the next 2 years at least. 
There are many people working on externals in their own bubble, at their
own schedule, and I don't think that is going to change, so what it is
going to take is a committed group of people who want to invest serious
time into bundling up all this exciting work into an easy to install
form.  

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:45, mark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just rebuilt my laptop and the biggest problem 
> with PD is gathering together all of the externals and
> documentation. 
> 
> It occurs to me that unified libraries would be the answer - 
> probably hosted on sourceforge and gathering together 
> as many externals as possible. 
> 
> I guess there would have to be a number: 
> 
> 	non~tilde (nt) cross platform
> 	tilde (t) cross platform 
> 
> 	nt - linux only 
> 	t - linux only 
> 
> 	nt - win only 
> 	t - win only 
> 
> How does this strike people? Would all you external writers 
> contribute?
> 
> cheers 
> 
> mark 
>