On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think that with Pd it is somewhat misleading. Ideally there should be no distinction between Pd objects written in C, C++, python, Tcl, TK, and even Pd itself.
Yes, I stress that this is an important concept for me, and I think pretty much all developers agree. I said something like that at the Pd Convention as a commentary on someone else's presentation (I don't recall which one), and I recall that there was a lot of approval about it.
But I think there should be a separate section for applications, performance patches, examples, etc.
A precedent on this is the UNIX filesystem layout, which distinguishes bin/ and lib/ ... and similarly, the OSX filesystem layout has such a distinction as well, and so does the Windows one! So I think there's no reason why we wouldn't do the same... although it's a quirk that many programming languages have of installing some application files in a subdir of their lib/ ... anyhow, the general principle is there, regardless of exceptions: separate libraries and applications.
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