Hallo, eric skogen hat gesagt: // eric skogen wrote:

If you want these to be public, there is an abstractions directory in Pd CVS[1]. Even if you're on Windows it's very easy to use something like TortoiseCVS[2] to check out that folder. Although it may be a pain to add it's contents recursively to your -path ...

This is probably the most central way to share patches, but hardly anybody uses it. Maybe because not a lot of people know about it?

Well, it's on the CVS where all other files are and currently there is no real permissions system set up, so CVS is more for developers/coders.

A better alternative could be puredata.info where you can share things online very easily and where even "untrusted" people can participate (don't take "untrusted" verbatim here ;). Currently pure-data.info is getting restructured, but basically it works like this:

Create an account there, and start uploading patches. Patches and the like are collected automatically under http://puredata.info/community/patches if they contain the "keyword" (sometimes also called "subject") "Patch", which you can set in the Properties tab of the File.

If there is need for subprojects then I could set up a sub-collector below http://puredata.info/community/projects/, we would just need to agree on a "keyword" for collecting these. Of course collecting also could be done by hand-editing a table of contents page somewhere.

Ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

hi ----- Original Message ----- From: "derek holzer" derek@x-i.net

I'll echo what the others have written about using CVS or pure-data.info as a repository for patches. However, if I understand you correctly, then what you want is to be able to access archived patches on your local network or other machines from your friends. In this case, yes, you would set the path, or use the "Path" button in the main PD GUI, to set the location of your friends' shared network folders. Then you'd be able to load the patches immediately.

yes, you understood, what my intentions are. my problem is actually not a pd-, but a windows-problem. i'm running win98 SE and i found out, how to share abstractions or patches in a LAN (as you described it). but i would like to share the files over internet (not peer2peer-sharing, but with a web-server or something similar). i think for this you need a virtual drive or so to specify a path in the .bat-file. specifying a path to a link to a folder in the .bat-file does not work (links seem not to be allowed in DOS; i must tell i'm not a profi in these things). in a LAN you can make a virtual drive on your computer from a folder of another computer (in german called: 'als Netzlaufwerk verbinden') . i am looking for something similar that works in the web and i'm still not sure if this is possible in win98 or not.

One other option, for network-jamming, would be to run your main PD DSP on one central machine, and have all the others access it via remote desktop, and then stream the audio results back out. Participants could also communicate with each other via IRC. This would give you something like the "extreme programming" that some folks here on this list were talking about last year--several people would be able to collaborate in [almost-]realtime on a single patch.

yeah, i heard about this. very interesting.

good luck, d.

thank you very much for your advice

roman

Le 15 Juin 2004 03:23, Frank Barknecht a écrit :

You could setup a WebDAV server on the net which basically is a http-server but uses that as a file-server.

Zope, which is used for the puredata web site, supports webdav. It should be possible to collaborate directly through a zope web site.

I have no idea if Windows 98 supports WebDAV already but AFAIK later versions of that OS do.

There's a little cross-platform helper application called "zope external editor" that act as a webdav bridge between a web site and local applications.

-- Marc