Hallo Thomas,
Thomas Grill schrieb:
However, flext is more general and in the Max/MSP world open-source is not as widespread as in the PD universe.
Maybe flext could (help to) change that?
As a musician i'm often depending on stable, feature-rich performance tools and if they do the job i'm willing to pay for them. It's easy to develop large, complex packages with flext (see vasp) and i want to encourage that, be open-source or not.
I see your point, I have another opinion, but I don't have a problem with that at all.
I'd just like to add one thought. A flext external for Max/MSP on Mac written by someone in the huge Max/MSP community could work on Pd-Linux, if the source was available. But if that someone in the Max/Mac world wouldn't want to supply or couldn't build a Pd/Linux binary, and wouldn't release the source, it would be impossible to run it on Pd/Linux.
This somehow, I think, would be against (one of) the whole point(s) of flext: cross-plattform source code portability.
ciao