[PD] agenda for upcoming book sprint?[GEM sprint]

[Derek Holzer]

My thoughts exactly...document what people actually use most, in a way 
which helps them to use it. As I said, if someone wants to go through 
all the trouble of making a separate install guide for PDP or Gridflow, 
I'd consider including it.

As it stands, however, both of these can change at any moment depending 
on distros and dependencies.... on top of the fact that they only run 
well on Linux + x86 architecture (PDP) or cannot be compiled at all 
except on Linux (Gridflow). For me to accept them into the FLOSS manual, 
the installation process must be completely and reliably documented as 
well. No lazy "just compile it and cry to the mailing list if it doesn't 
work" instructions which leave newbies lost. Free software is only 
really free when you don't have to be a computer programmer to get it 
working.

As it stands, I want to focus on accessibility first off. So 
cross-platform + Pd Extended is the baseline for the FLOSS Manual, as it 
has been from the beginning.

D.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I think it makes the most sense to focus on Gem since it is the most widespread.

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