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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sat Mar 28 06:11:43 CET 2009


For what its worth, PDP/PiDiP has been included in Mac OS X and GNU/ 
Linux Pd-extended since 0.39.3, so no compilation instructions  
needed.  We do still need someone to write the docs.  I don't think I  
know enough to write more than a paragraph.  Same goes with Gridflow,  
in my book.

.hc

On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:

> 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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>  :::
> ---Oblique Strategy # 30:
> "Change specifics to ambiguities"
>
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