On Dec 24, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 02:10:27PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 00:27, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<h...@at.or.at> wrote:
I just pushed some changes to pd-cyclone that create a split-out
binary package called 'cyclist'. As far as I understand it, I
don't need to ITP this new 'cyclist' package since its split off
of the pd-cyclone source package, but it does need to go thru the
NEW queue.
'cyclist' is a command line utility for converting file formats
that is built as part of the 'cyclone' library. Its the only
thing in 'pd-cyclone' that installs into /usr/bin and has a man
page, so it made sense to me to split it out. Then it can be
installed on its own without puredata or any Pd libraries.
Its ready for a sponsor/uploader if you are ready for it. :)
It seems to me there isn't much point in having the cyclist binary
without pd. What is the use case of converting Max/MSP patches into
text, if not for importing into pd?
A search engine, perhaps?
It would be useful to Max/MSP users separate from Pd. And perhaps
also useful to other computer music people. The binary file format is
really only for Max/MSP, but the text file format is quite old, and
used by a number of other members of the Max family. Pd and jMax for
example, which are free software, and Max/FTS and Max/ISPW which are
specialty proprietary versions of Max.
.hc
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