Alexandre suggested "recyclone," which I kind of like. "Cyclone" gets its name as a portmanteau of "cycling" and "clone," and it happens to be an english word. I rather like "typhoon," but "recyclone" makes it clear that it's a continuation of the original cyclone, while adding "recycle" to the portmanteau.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:32 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
On 02/21/2016 10:18 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 02/21/2016 08:35 PM, Fred Jan Kraan wrote:
This mail is the last I will write about cyclone in the foreseeable future.
this is about the worst possible outcome of the entire discussion.
There are serious plans to save Pure Data and cyclone by adding numerous objects.
what i don't understand is: what keeps people from creating a "typhoon" library that adds the additional objects?
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PS: and what is that "hurricane" library for?
after thinking some more about this, i think a sensible way to move forward is for *both* forks of cyclone to change their names.
cyclone is krzysztof's library. krzysztof is missing in action. he has neither officially abandoned the library nor has he (to my knowledge) authorized anybody to continue on his behalf.
i agree with chris that this is open source, and that forking is one of the strengths of open source. this doesn't mean though, that we should end up with 3 different versions of the same software that are indistinguishable from outside though different inside. in german we call this thing a "mogelpackung" (a euphemism for fraud).
it doesn't really matter if everybody is only working with their best intentions in mind. what does matter is, that the end-user is being mislead.
i therefore ask both fred and alexandre to change the name of their library, so that they cannot be confused with both the original cyclone library and with each other: neither of the forks is an (or /the/) "official" fork. for what it is worth, git makes it easy to incorporate changes between forks (using pull requests, cherry picking,...) even if the names are different!
keep both names similar to cyclone if you want to, so that it is possible to see their relation.
i still think that "hurricane", "tornado", "typhoon" and "windhoos" are good candidates.
mgrdsa IOhannes
PS: of course i am in no position to tell you what to do, but i do think this is a good opportunity to find a "best practice" forking model in the Pd world.
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