[PD] Pd standalone instruments ...

[Alexandre Quessy]

On 7/31/06, matthew jones <mj at isvr.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > A double-clickable jar-style format would be good to do so that you can
> > include more than one file.
>
> I second that!  Distribution of patches which include other patches,
> specific abstractions and externals would be peasy and clean with some kind
> of packaged format like that.  Then even if these abstractions etc were
> already installed on the user's machine the patch would look for anything
> required within this packaged file first... no longer any [scale] confusions
> or namespace issues!  Oh, but then externals are platform dependent, so....
> hmm patches become dependent too.  Right... maybe not the optimal solution
> then?


Very good idea !!
It could be a ZIP file with a XML file, patches and objects in it. The
XML file describes the role of each file in the bundles. Therefore,
one could wrap externals for, let say, Windose, Mack and Linux, and
write the ".pdrc" in the xml file. If the externals are missing for
the current OS, well, it doesn't work and that's it ! An example of
such a XML file in a TAR.GZ package is the package system of PEAR, the
PHP classes repository. See
http://www.php-editors.com/pear_manual/developers.packagedef.html

Maybe that's overkill though, but it would kind of compete with Max's VSTs. :-P

Cheers,

a





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