Re: [Om-synth] patch repository

[elgrande]

Atte André Jensen wrote:

> Hi
>
> A while back Dave expressed a wish for an online repository for 
> sharing om patches. Are there any news on this?
>
> For a new commer a bunch of patches would make om much more 
> accessible. Both for learning and for instant playability. This is 
> something that is missing with most OSS soft synths.
>
> Although I might play with other peoples patces, were they there, the 
> main reason I'm asking is that I'm starting getting more into om now, 
> and I'm generating some patches that I'd like to share...
>
> For me the main features of such a repository are:
>
> 1) Up/download possible by script or other automated thingy. I'll 
> probably not use it a lot if I have to log in to a web-site and browse 
> around.
>
> 2) Some kind of grouping or ordering besides the obvious name, date 
> and size. Dave already mentioned this...
>
> Would it be an idea to integrate some kind of client to the repository 
> in om_gtk? A friend of mine is one of the mian developers on the open 
> source cms typo3 which has this ability. In this case its modules 
> offering different addon functionality, but the idea is the same: 
> instant access to a common pool of information. Just a thought, not 
> even sure what I think of it myself :-)
>
> BTW: For now I updated my om patch tarball 
> (http://www.atte.dk/om/attes_om_patches.tgz) with a couple of new 
> patches, so...
Hi,

wouldn't it be easy like this:

Add a cvs module (e.g. om_shared_patches) to the om repository.

First let's assume some patches are already in there.

Then it works like this:
Have a cvs wrapper integrated in om_gtk which works like this:
- Check out module shared_patches to a unique location (e.g. 
/usr/local/share/om_shared_patches)
- Add the /usr/local/share/om_shared_patches (and subdirectories, if 
categorizing is done this way) to patch-loading-path.
=> The shared patches are available.

But were are the patches from?
For adding a patch, it could work like this:
- Have a upload-patch functionalilty in om.
- This lets you select a patch, copies it to your workarea 
(/usr/local/share/om_shared_patches) and does a cvs add & commit on the 
file. (Additional funtionality like adding it to a category aka subdir 
may be there)

More additional funtionality might be integrated into om_gtk:
- check out an exisiting patch for editing
- commit it

If you like the idea, I could help and write some wrapper scripts, if 
this is needed.

Greeeeeeez, Tino