[PD] plans for Pd 0.48

[Alex]

I wonder if we could get the additional [inlet~] features in there too.
Maybe someone has a branch with some of those?

I believe they were:

1) a control outlet so that abstractions can take both signals and controls
in their left most inlet like other (first class?) objects.. and, for
instance, clone with only signal inlets can still accept messages in its
left most inlet.
2) another outlet to indicate if a signal is actually attached to the
abstraction's inlet.


The DSP signal connection sensing could be quite nice so that we could
create abstractions and externals that fade in/fade out when signal
connections are connected or disconnected.. nicer for live patching..

On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm now ready to start working toward the next Pd release (0.48) . I've
> barely
> touched the Pd sources since the 0.47-1 release last June, and meanwhile
> picked
> up lots of ideas from the Pd convention and always have my own long list of
> things to do.   In the interest of transparency I'll try to map out my
> plans for
> the 3-ish months I think it will take me to get to 0.48.
>
> I'll only be advancing rather slowly before Feb. 4 because I have two
> separate
> music production projects before then; I'll start working faster after
> that.
>
> First thing is always to merge in as many patches and pull requests as I
> can.
> I get these from two sources: sourceforge
> (https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/)
> and github (https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pulls).  At the moment
> I don't prioritize one of those above the other.  I do this first because,
> when I enter a period of heavy code editing I risk causing conflicts with
> patches/pull requests and I don't want to create extra work for
> contributors.
>
> In a few days I'll start on my own changes, with the major ones first so
> that
> there's extras time to get them decently debugged; then while bugs in the
> major changes are surfacing I can take on a larger list of smaller changes.
> The major changes I want to try to put in this release are as follows:
>
> 1.  Make a stab at making Pdlib callable from multiple threads.  There's a
> suggestion from Peter Brinkmann in which gensym() (and I presume by
> extension, pd_bind() etc) would be protected by a lock.  I have an
> alternative
> idea I'd like to float; I'll do this in a separate message to follow.
>
> 2.  fix "preferences" so that you can load/store them explicitly to files,
> and
> offer an option to delete all "system" preferences ("defaults" on mac;
> registry info on Windows).
>
> 3.  Adapt and incorporate the Pd-llork/purr-data "infinite undo" feature.
> Since
> the code has diverged I'll probably have to extensively rewrite it to work
> in Pd
> vanilla.
>
> 4. fix the DSP sorting mechanism so that objects can sense whether they
> have
> signals connected and, if not, avoid having Pd automatically generate fake
> signals for them to use.  This way, for example, "+~" can finally detect
> whether
> it's got a signal connected without having the user have to tell it via
> "+~ 0".
> Also, then the filters (hip~ etc) can then be upgraded to allow signals for
> filter parameters, without doing the extra calculations if there's no
> signal
> connected.  This will require adding something to the "DSP" mechanism; I'm
> still
> not sure how to do this in the best way.
>
> 5.  Make a binary "FUDI" format for pd~ objects, and perhaps also offer it
> as an
> option for netsend/netreceive (I'm not sure if that's needed or not -
> maybe the
> existing "-b" binary formatting can be used in conjunction with some new
> formatting/parsing objects to allow passing floats and symbols around in
> binary
> messages instead.)
>
> 6. Hack at sigmund~ to add some features it needs.
>
> This is a long list and I probably won't get to all of it.  Then I'll move
> onto
> all the smaller changes, which are too numerous to list here.
>
>
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