On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
There are contributions that many people want and that somehow Miller doesn't want. The number of those contributions is increasing. This causes the divergence. To stop the divergence, either Miller has to follow, or people have to stop coding things that Miller refuses to take. If Miller doesn't follow, then I don't know why I'd even try stopping devel from diverging.
This is just not true. We have established a working way how contribution can go into Pd proper with the patches tracker. If you think that there are contributions that stay out without a good reason we can talk about thm. Talking about them might even convince Miller to change his mind, or we can find a more appealing solution together.
If you think it is too much work to get your proposals into Pd then propose a better way (for us all, including Miller, not just for you).
Just keep in mind that one thing is to code and the other thing is to make reliable releases. You just can not await from Miller that he lets you do the fun part (the coding) and he has to care for the integration and testing and above that change his ideas about where he wants to go.
If you want to check out how others get their code into PD, here is the link of the patches tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=55736&atid=478072
(Sorry it seems that all your contributions either got deleted or already accepted, or is it that .. no, no, I cant belive that :)
Guenter