[PD] External/Abstraction Repository (was Pd-extended)

[Max]

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The discussion about the Pd-extended reanimation left one question open:
What exactly is it, that people miss in vanilla compared to extended?

Is it the inclusion of a whole lot of externals and abstractions in
one package?
Debian/Ubuntu/Mint users already have an easy access to all those,
because many of them have been packaged.

A possible implementation to bring the same convenience to the other
platforms would be a kind of a repository in Pd itself. A lot of
softwares do that. Think of: browser add-ons, eclipse packages, atom
modules, the node.js package manager or Processing.org libraries.

In Pd this may even be a GUI-Plugin that allows for searching in meta
information added to the Pd externals/abstractions on sourceforge. And
a click to download and install them.

If you open a patch with an unknown object in it, the plugin could
offer you to search for it in the repository.

Just an idea.

0.5ct.



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