On 10 Oct 2005, at 17:28, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
externals for PureData. What David requests is documentation on how to write externals in Ruby.
That's correct, essentially, although I would love to see enough momentum to get GridFlow at large better documented.
My aim is to be able to provide students (everywhere, not just my little corner) with a well-documented way to script externals for PD in Ruby.
Why? Well, while scheme(guile) and python (though the -amazing- py/pyext) are there, Ruby is a really fun, creative language through which to learn programming. Teaching it is also immense fun.
So, I was hoping people out there would agree (or wish to see the potential behind it), and help in terms of creating a small pot of money to finance the effort and Matthieu's time, not just to document, but to foster a stable platform behind it, like a good OSX port, for example.
Just checking for a "fork" or more collaboration...
I've explained the forking of PureData on pd-dev@iem.at. It doesn't have anything to do with GridFlow. What makes you believe so?
As explained, this has to do with pedagogic efforts and writing externals in Ruby, through GridFlow.
The are 0 associations with GridFlow/DesireData and anything fork-like happening in dev.
Cheers,
David