Max, a friend was giving me the exact same ideas, I hope he joins the list and discussion. I think this is a great idea and certainly does the trick for being an extended of some sorts.
Nonetheless, I for one like to use extended for some other silly purposes as well, just cause it looks a tiny bit nicer, for instance - I got used to it!
In the latest release, Pd-Extended had many new design and GUI features, that's something people might miss. I'm still in 0.42-5 as I think the new version seems unstable and buggy.
Cheers
2014-09-23 23:29 GMT-03:00 Max abonnements@revolwear.com:
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The discussion about the Pd-extended reanimation left one question open: What exactly is it, that people miss in vanilla compared to extended?
Is it the inclusion of a whole lot of externals and abstractions in one package? Debian/Ubuntu/Mint users already have an easy access to all those, because many of them have been packaged.
A possible implementation to bring the same convenience to the other platforms would be a kind of a repository in Pd itself. A lot of softwares do that. Think of: browser add-ons, eclipse packages, atom modules, the node.js package manager or Processing.org libraries.
In Pd this may even be a GUI-Plugin that allows for searching in meta information added to the Pd externals/abstractions on sourceforge. And a click to download and install them.
If you open a patch with an unknown object in it, the plugin could offer you to search for it in the repository.
Just an idea.
0.5ct.
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