This is a follow up to the other mail on pd-list regarding the same. I think it makes sense to carry on on pd-dev, hence i just respond to this email.
On Wed, January 7, 2009 1:14 am, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
If anyone is ready to join in, there are many things that people could work on:
internationalization using msgcat and standard .po files
unified preference panel with tabs (like standard pref panes on
GNOME, Mac OS X, and Windows)
- flexible key binding code so that people can easily experiment with
all these ideas (this is started in pd_bindings.tcl)
restructure Pd window for cleaner UI and code
canvas scrollbar logic
and more....
Most of that is what i think is new features (more then it is restructuring). So that explains the confusion.
Let me ask: How easy will it be to merge this work into (vanilla) pd-0.42-x? - I was thinking that if there was done a restructure (my definition) then adding the new (gui) features of 0.42-x into that wouldn't be that much work. But adding them and merging new features within the restructure might be in my head/imagination.
My concern is that i hope for these things to end up in vanilla, hence i was thinking that restructuring and getting up to speed with vanilla would help with that. Given the restructure was accepted by Miller it would then also be much easier for him to take or not take changes. And as a bonus also easier for anyone to take or not take changes (ala distribution idea behind f.x. Git).
I hope this doesn't seam like ranting. It is intended as an honest and constructive input.
That aside. Just making sure: This devel branch is branching of vanilla 0.41-4 and the only focus is the gui (as opposed to also merging devel-0.39 features)?
Best, Steffen (trying to navigate to the pref panel code)