Assuming that new releases get folded in quickly, this sounds good to me. Miller and I deliberately kept Pd and GEM separate, although it always causes confusion to new users.
This solves two of the big problems: making sure that the individual packages are always available and the time commitment on the authors' parts to deal with it.
Later, Mark
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-----Original Message----- From: Karl MacMillan [mailto:karlmac@peabody.jhu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 5:22 PM To: msp@ucsd.edu Cc: pd-list@iem.mhsg.ac.at Subject: Re: question: should toys be part of Pd distribution?
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
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