On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
From what I rememeber, it was excluded because it was non- functional the way it was included. There is a bug that prevents
the libdir packaging working when the folder has the same name as
the abstraction in it, i.e. sssad/sssad.pd. T This works with binary externals.As for alternate ways of including things besides libdirs, there
are lots of kludges currently in Pd-extended. I've been spending a
lot of my time maintaining them. I'm working on reducing
maintenance time so I can actually spend time coding new things.
So far, only a couple people have a track record of actually
maintaining code in Pd-extended without me needing to get involved
(Martin Peach, Matju, Roman, IOhannes, I'm probably missing someone).So I think the way forward is to make it easy for people to
distribute their own libraries on their own, and make them really
easy to install and use. Pd-extended 0.42.5 and Pd-vanilla 0.43
have big improvements in that regard, so people should try that
path first (i.e. package as libdir, make the libdir usable when
dropped into the standard user install paths in the FAQ, etc.)Ok, so the emphasis will be on less included libs within pd-ext in
the future and more on the lib framework making externals easy to
install? I think we mainly need a sort of "externals" portal on the
website where everyone registers libs so its a one-stop shop for
picking your object poison. This makes more sense then an every
growing blob within pd-extended.
If someone truly wants to take on maintaining more libs in Pd-
extended, that is ok by me. I really don't want people to add stuff
to Pd-extended then disappear leaving me to deal with it, that's
mostly what's happened.
As for a place for libs, IOhannes set this up a while ago, I've
started adding things to it, I think it works well as a place for
people to release their libs, GUI plugins, etc. I think we should
switch puredata.info/downloads to this page once we get things all
figured out.
http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/
.hc
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