bbogart@ryerson.ca wrote:
What Matt and I propose is a PD launcher/external manager. This would be losely modeled on the MacOS 9 "extensions manager" where one turns off and on checkboxes to turn on and off extensions, and allows you to create sets of these choices "gem & zexy" "usb audio" "internal audio" "asio & gem & cyclone" These could be added as buttons or quick links. Another option, rather than checkboxes, is a two pane system, with a list of all externals on one side, and the current external set on the other, and using drag and drop to create sets. Ideally it would search for externals automatically, based on supplied search paths, and be cross-platform (windows/OSX/Linux + sgi?)
i don't have the programming skills to code such a beast, but i've been dreaming of an externals-manager that downloads the right version of externals and installs them automatically...
please do it ! :) regards d13b