[PD] Unified Library was Re: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
hard off hat gesagt: // hard off wrote:

> yeah sorry frank, i should have explained more clearly.
> 
> i also think that no GUI is the way to go for functional abstractions.  that
> was the big flaw of the DIY library i did, that the function of the
> abstractions was tied in with the gui component.  i did it that way because
> i didn't want to clutter the namespace with too many abstractions, and the
> thought of one abstraction for function, and then a different one for GUI
> was not appealing at the time.
> 
> but now, i think that is the only way to go.  like, as you said, for
> polyphony.  and then also for the many many cases in which you'd want to
> build your own gui for custom control.

Yeah, basically that was all I wanted to say as well. ;)
 
> i do think you guys have got a really really strong system there with
> rjlib.  but i was just saying that without the gui stuff, it doesn't exactly
> fit into being that 'all purpose building blocks' library that we are
> discussing.

Yes, that's true. rjlib has its focus on audio and control abstractions to be
used on mobile devices with vanilla Pd. Some of this fits into a "all purpose"
library, but a lot of it doesn't. 

Ciao
-- 
Frank