[PD] Call for Unified Libraries
mark
mark at junklight.com
Tue Apr 16 14:50:36 CEST 2002
I must admit thats exactly what I had in mind.
Joschi has put me off a bit with his estimate of
how much work it will be....
mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Rory Walsh [mailto:rorytheroar at yahoo.com]
Sent: 16 April 2002 13:51
To: pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at
Subject: Re: [PD] Call for Unified Libraries
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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