I really dont intend to put anyone off doing this! That was just a quick dashed out estimate, really the main point i am trying to make is that the _key_ to a successful free software project is stability, all the successful projects (gnu, pd, gnome, apache) had core contributers who stuck with it through the long periods before others started to come along and chip in. I think some people come into a free software projects and see all the help from outsiders and think "hey, if i start a project, others will come in and help with the leg work" but that isnt the case 90% of the time.
This project should happen and I think that if a team is put together of people who are willing to commit a certain amount of time to it for the long run, it can succeed.
:)
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, mark wrote:
I must admit thats exactly what I had in mind.
Joschi has put me off a bit with his estimate of how much work it will be....
mark
-----Original Message----- From: Rory Walsh [mailto:rorytheroar@yahoo.com] Sent: 16 April 2002 13:51 To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD] Call for Unified Libraries
Actually would a better idea be to leave the large libraries such as zexy as they are and work on a library that puts together all the other little externals from other people who are just beginning to develop objects for pd? Would this make more sense?
--- Joschi joschi@eds.org wrote: > 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
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