[PD] PD Launcher/External Manager

[bbogart at ryerson.ca]

If someone wanted to upload built versions of the stable externals in CVS, as tgz and zip files, for all platforms to a ftp server, then that would be a LOT easier for the tool to do. (download and extract, but then you depend on extraction tools, whats the average size of the externals? (for all platforms?) 

I'm thinking the double pane idea would work better from a usability standpoint, opinions?

B.

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Lavallée <odradek at videotron.ca>
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:51 am
Subject: Re: [PD] PD Launcher/External Manager

> David McCallum wrote :
> > My Pd launcher's no more than a custom DOS .bat file that let's 
> > you turn Framestein and ASIO drivers on/off at runtime. 
> 
> I use the same technique in Linux with a shell script.
> 
> > And as a windows user I have to ask this, how cross-platform are 
> > you intending this to be?
> 
> Tcl/Tk. The launcher would list the externals with their descriptions,
> and checkboxes would activate them. If an internet source is 
> provided it
> would first download and install the externals. Isn't there a Windows
> mechanism to install softwares from the network? 
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> "L'homme n'est pas fait pour travailler, la preuve c'est que cela le
> fatigue." (Voltaire)
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