[PD] apt get for abstractions

[Kyle Klipowicz]

I haven't used Net-Pd that much, but doesn't it use a sort of system
to keep patches up to date?

~Kyle

On 3/12/07, Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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