[Pd] externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:56 PM, geiger wrote:

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> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> well, i have seen worse on the puredata.org page. all the links  
>>> work,
>>> and point to the right resource.
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>> But they are links to stuff that is deprecated and not maintained,
>> like the "externals" binary collection.
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> So you think Millers site is deprecated and not maintained, or are you
> just exagerating to get the point over ?

I don't follow... I wasn't trying to exagerate.  I was referring to  
the "pd-externals" section on the downloads page which has not been  
updated since 2003-03-11.

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>> puredata.org/dev is not documentation, so it does not belong in the
>> docs section.   Developer docs go in docs/developer.  /dev/ is for
>> things related to development, like links to the trackers, wiki pages
>> for certain projects (Gem, PDDP, etc).
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> I would like to put puredata.org/dev in shape, but its not that easy,
> as I just do not understand its structure. I would probably remodel
> it after the pure-data.sf site, and you wouldn't like it.
> We would end up in endless discussions who is right, you wouldn' t  
> give
> in ...
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> I felt responsible for pure-data.sf.net, you tell me that I do not
> maintain it and that it out of date, exagerating to get your point  
> over,
> I give in, you tell me I should fix the mess you created.
> defend my self

I had no idea that it was maintained.  I was just going the fact that  
it links to some quite old stuff and by the timestamp on the pages:

Last Modified: October 19 2004 15:07:47 GMT

I personally want to avoid fighting over anything.  If people want to  
fight, I'll do something else.  If you don't want change that site,  
no problem.  I don't really want to spend a long time discussing it,  
I've said my two bits.  But I would like it a lot if you (or anyone  
for that matter) worked on organizing the puredata.org/dev section,  
as long as we can agree on the basic premise.  If you didn't notice,  
I moved that stuff on the front page of /dev/ to /docs/developer/ 
Repositories since I think that makes more sense, like you said that  
parts should be in the docs section.  If that doesn't make sense, the  
changes can easily be reverted back to the old site, Plone keeps a  
history of everything AFAIK.

That's the idea of the wikis.  Anyone can edit, and if a change is  
not so good, it can be reverted.

.hc