On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Winfried Ritsch wrote:
pd-externals ("abstractions" and "externals" with no deps)
Where do you put externals that have deps that are not audio deps and that are not video deps?
Do you have a suggestion?
I don't know...
pd-externals may have some extra dependencies,
Oh, I didn't think of interpreting "externals with no deps" this way.
I'd just put these in pd-externals anyway, unless they, like Gridflow, pdp or Gem, form a kind of application itself build on top of Pd.
What do you mean that they form a kind of application? That seems vague... Is it because of their size? or is it because all three happen to define their own datatypes and use them a lot, and as such seem to be escaping Pd's claws?
What is required for a library to be considered a real library (integrated with pd) instead of being kind of an application (build on top) ? Does the distinction exist?
A bigger issue could be platform specific externals. Okay, Framesteins seems deadish, but for example the alsa-externals by IOhannes won't run on OS-X or MS-Windows.
How would that be a bigger issue, or even an issue?... You just don't provide alsa packages on OSX and MSW, that's all, right??
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