[PD] PD Launcher/External Manager
Frank Barknecht
fbar at footils.org
Fri May 16 20:19:23 CEST 2003
Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> This is a great idea, something I was planning on working on this
> summer. I'd like to contribute if possible. Perhaps we can put it in
> the CVS and collaborate.
For some time I have the idea of an "Edit->Preferences" menu entry,
that on Linux/Mac just edits the ~/.pdrc and on W32 maybe writes a
.bat file or starts Pd with appropriate options. This shouldn't be too
hard, but I'm very bad at tk.
> As for distributing the externals, I think rather than building our own
> distribution system, we should use what's out there for each OS.
> Debian and RedHat have very nice existing methods, and the externals in
> the SourceForge CVS can be compiled into a set of Debian packages right
> now. They just need to be submitted to the Debian and/or DeMuDi
> repository. It shouldn't be too hard to add RedHat/PlanetCCRMA to
> that, but currently Nando at CCRMA does that outside of the CVS.
At the LAD conference Fernando and me talked about this. If I remember
this correct, he was interested in maybe putting a rpm.specs file or
such into out CVS.
> Think of it this way: if we had all of the externals that didn't have
> lib dependencies in the CVS, they could all be included in the main
> externals package in the CVS and they would all be installed with that
> package. The key omissions that I can think of off the top of my head
> are the collections of Olaf Matthes,
Olaf's externals (maybe not all) are already in...
> Krzysztof Czaja,
... soon to come ...
> Thomas Musil, Dave Sabine, and Yves Degoyon;
... and sorely missed.
> So to encourage others to join the CVS, I am going to configure access
> control lists in the CVS so that devs who choose to can restrict write
> access to their code in the CVS. I am also willing to upload people's
> code and help with setting up CVS access.
That's a good idea, also to maybe get the main pd-development into a
common CVS (hint, hint;)
ciao
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