[PD] apt get for abstractions

[Stephen Sinclair]

what if you could refer to abstractions using URLs?  a caching system
could take care of reducing the need to be connected at all times.
something like ZeroInstall for example.

or perhaps using Java-style class paths, especially if URLs could be
included in the class path.

would this lead to very long abstraction names? we could solve this by
providing an "alias" object, so that any abstractions mentioned in a
patch that are prepended by the given alias are replaced with the
alias' URL.  Then the "alias" could be used as the "base address" for
the abstraction names.


Steve


On 3/11/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> I think this would be very useful.  It should be as easy to set up as
> possible, some kind of minimal setup based on HTTP like basic apt-get
> repositories.  Eclipse's repository format is worth checking out.
>
> I think we should build it in Pd for maximum portability and
> maintainability.  Pd programmers will always be able to write in Pd.
> But that's not always the case for C or other programming languages.
>
> .hc
>
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>
> > Sure,
> > But such a system should be as portable as Pd. Such a system should be
> > in C, I guess, for maximum portability.
> >
> > Like APT, I find the pear package system very nice too. It would be
> > very easy to adapt, but it is in PHP. It uses XML to store
> > informations about the files hierarchy.
> >
> > Marc Lavallée told me about a simple package system that would be easy
> > to adapt, but I forgot its name. Marc ?
> >
> > Such a topic might fit better in the pd-dev list.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > 2007/3/11, adam armfield <adamairmailed at yahoo.com>:
> >> following on from the ongoing debate about bundles for
> >> patches with many abstractions, I had the idea for an
> >> apt-get style system, where someone who wants a patch
> >> can enter a command & get all necessary abstractions
> >> at the same time...
> >>
> >>
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