ZenGarden is named after a vegetarian restaurant of the same name near the RjDj offices. Food from the ZenGarden fueled the early development of the library (that, and a slightly unhealthy dose of Red Bull).
I wish that I didn’t have to reimplement List, especially given that a far better, type-safe version exists in the STL. But Android does not currently (as of NDK v1.5) support the STL. So I decided to make my own. Once Android catches up with the rest of the C++ world, then I will refactor.
There are two administrators of the ZenGarden project. They are:
- Martin Roth — mhroth [at] rjdj [dot] me
- Chris McCormick — chris [at] mccormick [dot] cx
Brilliant! We welcome everyone who would like to help make ZenGarden more compatible with Pd. But before you get started, please talk to us first. The project is still in the very early stages and we prefer to handle some issues ourselves as they are still very unstable. This primarily applies to the core framework, and less to the objects themselves.
No. But, external support is planned, however the project is still far away from supporting this functionality. In the beginning, externals in ZenGarden’s native format will be supported, and afterwards binary abstraction layer will be used so that original Pd externals can work as well.