Hi all:
Hi all,
I've spent some time thinking about this. I had only limited success pulling code from the 0.39 "devel" because there were so many changes, often with rationales I didn't fully understand, that I wasn't confident about my ability to maintain whatever I ended up with. However, I did manage to fold some of it back into 'vanilla'.
On the other hand, u_main.tk is such a mess that I don't think of it in the same way as the rest of the Pd code at all - I'm much more willing to take "patches" on it even if I don't understand them :)
thanks for your reply and letting us know what you think. We planed to make incremental changes anyway, so it should work quite well with making patches for vanilla.
A couple of details. First, I'm at work myself making a desire-data-inspired rewrite of all the dialog windows... maybe you shouldn't lose time on that till I have a chance to hack at it. I'm also planning rather soon to add a new text-editor-window feature.
Second, and this just occurred to me, I think it would be smart to separate the u_main.tk cide into several smaller files. They could simply be concatenated by the makefile. This way people could work on different parts of it with much less chance of their work colliding. I should have thought of this simple strategy years ago, hmm.
hehe, am glad to hear that desiredata has some influence on people other then the ones involved with it;)
Are those features close to be finished? if so, we could wait a bit till then and use the new release as our starting point. Breaking down u_main.tk sounds like a good idea. Perhaps we could discuss on the possible ways to do it so we can experiment a little while the new features are being completed. what do you think?
cheers
chun
cheers Miller
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 05:32:59PM +0100, chun@goto10.org wrote:
Hi all:
Hope you are all well:)
Some of us have been toying with the idea of working on the gui code (u_main.tk/pd.tk only, leaving the C code untouched) of Pd for a little while now. Starting with refactoring it and gradually adds new stuff in, and hopefully the changes will work its way to pd-vanilla.
For this reason, we would like to revive the good old pd-devel as the working branch. as it would seem fitting to do so instead of making a new branch with a new name.
So i guess this mail will act as the announcement for this new effort, as well as a discussion starter for many of us who would like to talk about the surrounding issues. and perhaps we could also revive the semi regular dev meetings we had on #dataflow too;)
cheers
chun
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