[PD] Call for Unified Libraries

[Rory Walsh]

Actually would a better idea be to leave the large
libraries such as zexy as they are and work on a
library that puts together all the other little
externals from other people who are just beginning to
develop objects for pd? Would this make more sense?

 --- Joschi <joschi at eds.org> wrote: > 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 
> > 
> 
> 
>  

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