what if you could refer to abstractions using URLs? a caching system could take care of reducing the need to be connected at all times. something like ZeroInstall for example.
or perhaps using Java-style class paths, especially if URLs could be included in the class path.
would this lead to very long abstraction names? we could solve this by providing an "alias" object, so that any abstractions mentioned in a patch that are prepended by the given alias are replaced with the alias' URL. Then the "alias" could be used as the "base address" for the abstraction names.
Steve
On 3/11/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
I think this would be very useful. It should be as easy to set up as possible, some kind of minimal setup based on HTTP like basic apt-get repositories. Eclipse's repository format is worth checking out.
I think we should build it in Pd for maximum portability and maintainability. Pd programmers will always be able to write in Pd. But that's not always the case for C or other programming languages.
.hc
On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
Sure, But such a system should be as portable as Pd. Such a system should be in C, I guess, for maximum portability.
Like APT, I find the pear package system very nice too. It would be very easy to adapt, but it is in PHP. It uses XML to store informations about the files hierarchy.
Marc Lavallée told me about a simple package system that would be easy to adapt, but I forgot its name. Marc ?
Such a topic might fit better in the pd-dev list.
Alex
2007/3/11, adam armfield adamairmailed@yahoo.com:
following on from the ongoing debate about bundles for patches with many abstractions, I had the idea for an apt-get style system, where someone who wants a patch can enter a command & get all necessary abstractions at the same time...
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