[CREATE] shared resources installation

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

Hi,

Another brain feeding idea for upcoming LGM :)

Recently I compiled SVN build of Hydrogen -- a cross platform open
source drum machine [1]. Hydrogen uses drumkits - libraries of drum
samples that are usually stored in a local directory. SVN version
features a network drumkits installator. It fetches updated list of
available drumkits and lets users download new ones or remove existing
ones.

What do you think about creating a similar online repository for
shared resources and either internal or external clients to it?
Internal client for each application means tighter integration, but
also more work in common. External standalone-client means less work,
but also less integration.

The most serious cons, I guess, is that this would clearly be
installation into ~/.create and thus not effective for multiuser
desktops.

Subjects to further consideration:

- introducing modularization of shared resources (and thus having
separate branches in repo for each kind of shared resource);
- introducing basic metadata for resources (name, description);
- organization of repository;
- administration of repository.

Opinions anyone? Can Creative Commons be helpful here?

[1] http://hydrogen-music.org

Alexandre