Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey,
So what should be the core mission of the pure-data repository? It looks like it is time to have that discussion again. I see it as a gathering of code and docs that are intended to be built using a common build system (aka Pd-extended build system).
for me, the sourceforge project is still the place where the main development is meant to happen, rather than focusing on a common build system.
unfortunately the two ideas often do not go together so well, esp. when some new developments break the main build process - because they are, well, under development.
in my opinion, the versioning system was introduced to do code development rather than just accumulate all available libraries. for the latter, a simple ftp server would have been sufficient. also, it would have been a good idea to not have so many contributors added to the project, as each of them could potentially do development;-)
if these two sides cannot live together happily, i think it would be better to split the project into 2 seaparate ones: a project for development of the package, and a project (or several thereof) for the actual development of externals,...
a probably good example is the "pd-overlay" sf-project, that aims at creating a distribution package of various pd versions (pd, pdx, netpd) without actually touching the development side of these things. instead it is solely concentrating on creating the package.
fmasr.t IOhannes