[PD] (netpd)U(Pd-extended), Pd-ext bug-tracker (was Re: elitism, software and academia)

[Kyle Klipowicz]

Great! This seems easy enough. I think that this is the simplest
solution for now anyway. Eventually being able to separately use
modules and even create alternate GUIs for them would be nice too. Of
course, I think that the GUIs in netpd are one of the  most attractive
aspects for new users (and people like me who appreciate thoughtful
design).

So it sounds like Georg is offering to add this stuff to CVS. What are
the major decisions then that need to be made to get this thing
rolling? I've got these:

1) Decide whether or not to take a static sampling of the netpd
community at a certain point, or keep this updated fluidly like netpd
itself.

2) Decide if the files will emulate netpd by mimicking the
_controller.pd patch and server-side communications, or if they will
be rewritten in another way.

3) Find the best way to keep the files checked in to cvs.

4) Actually check it in.

5) Test it out.

6) Fix errors.

I think that using the namespace features of Pd-extended will be very
nice if one would wish to run both the netpd online community, as well
as the independent Pd-extended version.

Any thoughts or additions to this quick list of steps to be done?

~Kyle


On 6/14/07, Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:17 +0200, Georg Holzmann wrote:
> > Hallo!
> >
> > > maybe some chosen patches could be converted to work standalone,
> > > but it would be lots of work ... and introduce new bugs.
> > > some systems like the fx-library system for the mixer were
> > > specially developed that different users can develop effects
> > > without touching the mixer itself. somehow that wouldn't make
> > > sense in a standalone version.
> >
> > you don't have to convert them - you could add them as they are, so they
> > would work with netpd and are included in pd-extended ...
> >
> > But I don't know much about netpd so I migth be wrong ...
>
> two prerequisites must be fullfilled in order to work netpd-patches in
> standalone mode in pd-extended:
>
> a) netpd-abs need to be included as well
>
> b) an additional patch, that imitates the netpd-server would be needed.
> basically that patch would just be:
>
> [r netpd-broadcast]
> |
> |     [r netpd-send]
> |     |
> |     [list split 1]
> |           /
> |  ________/
> |/
> [s netpd-receive]
>
> (yeah, in ascii art you can have segmented patch cords ;-) )
>
> roman
>
>
>
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