[L2Ork-dev] Regarding GSoC'18

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Rishabh Jain
<f20140069 at goa.bits-pilani.ac.in> wrote:
> I've made some changes to the proposal.
> Like you pointed it out, '  I'm still not exactly clear on the process by
> which the ASCII art would be parsed and turned into a selection in a Purr
> Data diagram. ',
> for this my approach will be (in layman's terms):
> - take and parse input (ascii art)
> - divide this into subproblems (like extracting elements out of the ascii)
> - calling particular C functions, to change it in a PD
>
> With array's and C references, I meant the ''canonical' representation of
> graph in C backend. Because of shortage of time, I was unable to read about
> the C backend and PD graph representation. I believe my interpretition for
> the same is quite wrong. I can't help it as it's almost the deadline now.
> Instead, I've given more time to the API development project. I've been
> thorough most of the JS codes here. And, since I've already done API
> development before, I've made changes in proposal to explain things related
> to this project, more clearly. My main approach concludes as follows,
> I'll add a middleware application (express.js) to the existing nw, node.js
> server code. This middleware will give us the ability to tell Pd to load a
> particular patch in the same directory as the web app (or perhaps using Pd's
> search path), ability to close a Pd patch and all the other requirements.
> Alongside, it will also allow our server to entertain more complex API calls
> (get/post handlers of express will take care of this). By this, we'll be
> leveraging the already present interface and will be improving not only
> functionality but also performance, by many folds.
> Further, for 'add a feature that allows a Pd Patch to send messages back to
> the web app', the express app will take care of this too, by using
> 'res.send()' or similar functions. I'm quite certain about this approach and
> Proof of concept for the same can be done in about a week or so.
>
> Because of my inability to give the conversion project my full, and because
> of my misinterpretations, I want to make API for HTML5 as my main project.
> Apologies for the inconvenience caused. Despite my hard efforts to make my
> proposal 'purr-fect', shortage of time became the hindrance in making it
> possible.
> Looking forward to hear from your side.
> Thank you.

Hi Rishabh,

That sounds like a sensible choice to focus on a single project idea.

We look forward to reading your web app proposal!

Best,
Jonathan

>
> Regards,
> Rishabh Jain
>