On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 08:57 -0500, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
Yes, what I am talking about is not to add 'netpd the whole application' to Pd-extended, but merely the modules, which are functional and quite useful on their own.
yeah, that is what i think as well.
These seem to be the best developed set of GOP objects that would be immediately understandable to those coming from the Reason/Reaktor/AudioMulch/whatever crowd, and would serve as a nice entry point to Pd even when removed from the context of internet collaborative performance (which is still a WAY cool concept, Roman!).
a netpd-patch is a patch with a gui-subpatch, that uses some netpd-abstractions and possibly some others, but usually they don't use GOP. either turning them into GOP-modules or just into abstractions, both would require at least a minimum of work (and writing some help-patches).
In the next week or so, I will start tinkering with some patches to see how well they integrate in my local Pd-extended distribution. If the go ahead is there from the netpd community, I'll try to write up a quick proposal to include these in the Pd-extended distro. Roman, how would I go about getting permission to distribute the patches in this way?
this topic was never seriously discussed and it is not clear, if and how the netpd-patches could be generally licensed. but since it is known, that a patch opened in netpd is distributed within the whole community, one can assume, that these patches are meant to be shared.
If this were to happen, would that require that the patches be maintained in cvs separate from the netpd application page? I'm pretty green at this sort of thing, but it seems like something that would be a great benefit, and which I might actually be able to help with. So please, feedback anyone?
i don't think that it is realistic to expect people to maintain there patches in cvs. and i think it is more a question of porting the patches to generally useful modules than of maintaining these modules, since i don't believe that people who made some patches for netpd will maintain the modules derived from their patches over years.
roman
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