[PD] libpd separating gui from core

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 02/17/2014 10:48 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> I think that the way forward with the pd/gui separation is to work on the low hanging fruit, things that are easy to fix.  Let the hard parts for later, which will only be a couple areas.
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> So that means looking at everywhere where sys_gui() or sys_vgui() is called, and seeing how the raw Tcl in those calls can be converted into Tcl procs.  The syntax for calling Tcl procs is very close to a Pd list, so that is an easy way to get close.
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> The Pd dev community has always been plagued with a desire for grand plans before starting work.  And that has proven to mean nothing happens.

No sane person is going to do incremental work without a plan on GUI 
software in 2014 that only has a single undo.

-Jonathan

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> .hc
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> On 13/01/2014 15:32, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>> As Hans has proposed for years, IMO this is really the only way to
>> perhaps solve the "PD gui development doesn't move fast enough" problem
>> in the long term. In this case, Miller would have the core (in libpd) &
>> the pd-vanilla wrapper gui formally separated while everyone else can
>> then use the same libpd core within other flavors. The DSP core is the
>> heart and soul and I see no reason to try and change that in any way.
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