[PD] Re: [PD-dev] GridFlow documentation fundraising.

[David Plans Casal]

On 10 Oct 2005, at 17:28, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> externals for PureData. What David requests is documentation on how to
> write externals in Ruby.

That's correct, essentially, although I would love to see enough 
momentum to get GridFlow at large better documented.

My aim is to be able to provide students (everywhere, not just my 
little corner) with a well-documented way to script externals for PD in 
Ruby.

Why? Well, while scheme(guile) and python (though the -amazing- 
py/pyext) are there, Ruby is a really fun, creative language through 
which to learn programming. Teaching it is also immense fun.

So, I was hoping people out there would agree (or wish to see the 
potential behind it), and help in terms of creating a small pot of 
money to finance the effort and Matthieu's time, not just to document, 
but to foster a stable platform behind it, like a good OSX port, for 
example.

>> Just checking for a "fork" or more collaboration...
>
> I've explained the forking of PureData on pd-dev at iem.at. It doesn't 
> have
> anything to do with GridFlow. What makes you believe so?

As explained, this has to do with pedagogic efforts and writing 
externals in Ruby, through GridFlow.

The are 0 associations with GridFlow/DesireData and anything fork-like 
happening in dev.

Cheers,

David

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