On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 14:55, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote: > > 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.
OK. The Recommends on cyclist by pd-cyclone is not clear to me. If these tools have different use cases, then maybe recommends is too strong a relationship. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
