[PD] starting the release cycle for Pd-extended 0.42

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:40 PM, András Murányi wrote:

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> 2009/10/5 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
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> On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:11 PM, András Murányi wrote:
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>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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>> Hey all,
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>> Since there is the serious GUI bug with Pd 0.41, including Pd- 
>> extended 0.41.4, I think it would be good to start the release  
>> process for Pd-extended 0.42 now.  If you are planning on adding a  
>> library to Pd-extended (pdmtl?), or making substantial changes (pdp 
>> +cv?), then we should coordinate to make sure that stuff goes  
>> smoothly.
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>> This is the wiki page for tracking what has changed and what needs  
>> doing for the next release. Please add things that need doing, and  
>> anything that has changed.
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>> http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease
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>> "add 'books' section to help browser for the books" - please what  
>> do we exactly mean here? Andras
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> I was thinking of adding clickable links to the Pd books:
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> http://puredata.info/docs/BooksAboutPd
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> .hc
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> Alrite, 'books' sounded a bit alien not only because real books are  
> offline but also because they cost money, so linking them is almost  
> advertising.
> While i actually have no objections against stuffing the help menu  
> with all kinds of interesting items i can see more fantasy in  
> integrating those online sources with a help search function. Then  
> it could also look up Youtube videos, pd-list messages, whatsoever.

Yes, I think we can add all sorts of resources there.  The idea is to  
make all the resources more findable.  That means doing it right, not  
just dumping a bunch of stuff there, which is more or less what has  
happened in the past ;)

.hc




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