Well, from the response to this so far and from talking to my colleagues that are interested in PD but still haven't taken the plunge, it seems that nice integrated, ready to go binaries with all the goodies would be welcomed. Perhaps what is needed is someone to compile all this stuff for all the platforms into, to use the linux jargon, distributions. As I have access to linux and windows with compilers and should have access to an O2 soon (and have the time), I would be happy to do this if people are interested. This way the individual packages can continue to be mantained by their authors and released according to their own schedules, but end users can get everything they want. Let me know.
Karl
Miller Puckette wrote:
Hi Pd-ers,
would it be more convenient for you if I integrated "toys" (the pitch tracker, expr, and other really useful things) as part of the Pd distribution? It would make the distribution grow by 150K or so...
I'm raising the question because I'm writing a phase object for sampling (which someone suggested here a year or so ago) and want to put something in "soundfile-tools" in the pd distribution which uses the new object... it seems as if that would be a good reason to put "toys" in the distribution of Pd...
cheers Miller