On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
I would like to know where the configuration system of pd is heading to. I have read many months ago that the ~/.pdrc was deprecated....
in DesireData, ~/.pdrc is not deprecated, and there's an editor for it. (the first release of DesireData is approaching quickly)
I like that system, even though it is not possible to include comments in it.
devel_0_39 allows inclusion of comments. (however, the DesireData editor strips comments and sort the options in the order that they are in the editor)
Maybe a system that would be nice to migrate to is the http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/ interpreter, which is somewhat similar to a simplified C syntax.
I don't know which part of pd you want to migrate this to. If it's about the configuration system, I'm thinking about using pd messages for everything, in the future.
Simplified C syntax is only interesting to those who are C programmers. For pd users, it's better to use pd patches. For other people... tastes vary. I prefer Tcl syntax.
Slang is seldom used. I don't remember any feature of Slang that made it seem like an interesting language. Tcl is already much more used and exciting.
I know there are many languages like this one (namely Lua, processing, etc.) but this one looks nice.
What makes Lua and Processing looking not nice?
For those that like the console to write software,
Do you want to make a console version of pd? =)
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