Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Now with Pd-0.39.3-extended finally out, I'd like to talk about setting the timetable for the next Pd-extended release.
Would this also be a time to talk about possible structural changes to address some problems of Pd-extended? One problem I see is that the releases are too old. pd-0.39 is from 2005. Of course one can try shorter release cycles, but people are only so fast, and we're facing a two-year delay here, not just a couble of weeks, so I believe, some "mechanisms" may need to change as well, not just policies.
One thing that seems to hold back releases for years is the sheer size of Pd-extended. I brought this up in the past, but I believe, Pd-extended should be split into two packages, one including MSP-Pd, patched, and another for the actual extensions (externals, abstractions, docs, ...). I think, the build system already can do this, it's just the packaging that doesn't do that.
Ciao