hi ----- Original Message ----- From: "derek holzer" derek@x-i.net
I'll echo what the others have written about using CVS or pure-data.info as a repository for patches. However, if I understand you correctly, then what you want is to be able to access archived patches on your local network or other machines from your friends. In this case, yes, you would set the path, or use the "Path" button in the main PD GUI, to set the location of your friends' shared network folders. Then you'd be able to load the patches immediately.
yes, you understood, what my intentions are. my problem is actually not a pd-, but a windows-problem. i'm running win98 SE and i found out, how to share abstractions or patches in a LAN (as you described it). but i would like to share the files over internet (not peer2peer-sharing, but with a web-server or something similar). i think for this you need a virtual drive or so to specify a path in the .bat-file. specifying a path to a link to a folder in the .bat-file does not work (links seem not to be allowed in DOS; i must tell i'm not a profi in these things). in a LAN you can make a virtual drive on your computer from a folder of another computer (in german called: 'als Netzlaufwerk verbinden') . i am looking for something similar that works in the web and i'm still not sure if this is possible in win98 or not.
One other option, for network-jamming, would be to run your main PD DSP on one central machine, and have all the others access it via remote desktop, and then stream the audio results back out. Participants could also communicate with each other via IRC. This would give you something like the "extreme programming" that some folks here on this list were talking about last year--several people would be able to collaborate in [almost-]realtime on a single patch.
yeah, i heard about this. very interesting.
good luck, d.
thank you very much for your advice
roman