On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 integer@www.god-emil.dk wrote:
nn with constructive comment? lovely day indeed...;-)
pd should kall the appropriate importer when one selects to load a patch with a translator - much as other programs do. [there are other places where this should be available and the entire pd requires a lovely redesign
If Larry were to write a Scheme interpreter with a more comprehensive implementation (currently SIOD) like, say, PLT (Larry?), we could build beatiful combinations of importer/interpreter chains...or am I just tripping here.
[crazy idea for a lovely sunday]
define a compatibility/diktionary file format [text format so that one may easily modify
- misuse it] which the plugins load automatically at startup _and when prompted [no more xy rigidity
nonsense svp]
how about doing it with XML, i.e. a dictionary in XML format (PD XSchema?) and a Scheme XML-RPC layer to talk to a plugins/external library? I cannot boast that I could help Larry with the C involved in a new interpreter (though he said a bigger user-base than 1 would prompt him to do it), but I could help to code XML bits in Scheme. I'm sure Orm Finnendhal (sorry if misspelt) would help, too?
pd should be able to import with _multiple plugins simult [hence it is lovelier if the import plugins are patches (one could construct custom versions as desired. likewise _one import plugin could be fabricated out of multiple objekts]
If PD-land could agree on a scripting/library architecture, that should be no problem?
am working on something vis a vis this but don't mind me. i have different motives + desires. e.g. should <-> may ~74
what is your vis a vis? do you desires include Free Software principles? feel like sharing? Seriously, I see what Larry Troxler started as a very huge step towards a unified plugin(or whatever)-able architecture for PD, and watching the recent (and juicy!) thread on libraries, etc., I feel that if only we had a few more people interested in at least trying with something as flexible as Scheme <=> XML, we could really go a long way towards most everybody's desires/pleas...
Ready?
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