On Jan 27, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Steve Peach wrote:
In Max/MSP you can save (compile) your patches into various plug-ins or applications. I was wondering can this be done in Pd (which is
what I use at home) If it can , could someone let me know please, it would be MUCH!!! appreciatedit cannot be done. why should it? (the reason for max/msp to offer
this possibility is in its proprietary nature. for pd this is not
necessary: just give away your patches + pd)The problem is that just giving away a working pd that will continue to work on the target computer is not always easy.
Does Pd have any "static-linked" version or otherwise self-contained?
If externals have dependencies, is there anything that can copy those dependencies inside of a directory that can easily by zipped and
shipped?It doesn't have much to do with proprietary vs free.
Pd-extended is self-contained. That's a big motivation in the creation
of it.
But compiling Pd patches isn't purely a question of proprietary vs
free. If Pd could be compiled, it could run on embedded systems like
mobile phones and microcontrollers. It would be quite difficult to
make a Pd port to Microchip PIC.
Its also a question of flexibility, it would be a nice feature to have.
But its probably not easy to implement.
.hc
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