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).
As for Pd-extended, I think it is a mistake (almost all my fault) including so many things in the package. It is now clear to me that makes more sense to have a distro that includes only the very stable libraries, then to make Pd fully support external libdirs, including shared libs, help patches, example patches, manuals, etc.
I very very much like that idea! I think there should be a pd-distro where externals are only added if they are available on win, macos and linux and if they have manuals/helppatches support. and the whole distro comes with a toc and tutorials... count me in for that! marius.
I think then there could be a simple distro system like Eclipse has for managing plugins. (Basically, there is a simple format for posting a library to a website. The user then adds the repo URL to the program, which then has a browser for all available installation options and updates).
I guess this was a bit vague and wandering, but it seems that there is a discussion that needs to be had.
.hc
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