This is a good idea, anything to ease the installation of a good PD system for the end user is great. I do think that the challenge of this is that it is going to take a committed team to keep up with all the parrallel development that goes on in the pd community over a long period of time. There is no point in starting such a project unless you are willing to spend 5-10 hours a week for the next 2 years at least. There are many people working on externals in their own bubble, at their own schedule, and I don't think that is going to change, so what it is going to take is a committed group of people who want to invest serious time into bundling up all this exciting work into an easy to install form.
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:45, mark wrote:
Hi,
I have just rebuilt my laptop and the biggest problem with PD is gathering together all of the externals and documentation.
It occurs to me that unified libraries would be the answer - probably hosted on sourceforge and gathering together as many externals as possible.
I guess there would have to be a number:
non~tilde (nt) cross platform tilde (t) cross platform
nt - linux only t - linux only
nt - win only t - win only
How does this strike people? Would all you external writers contribute?
cheers
mark