However, my biggest problem with PD is still that things crash all the time, but nobody ever can say why, and I'm not sure if things are improving.
i get this, but i figured it was just stack-corruption due to 64bit issues. PD 0.39 was extremely stable for me on winXP, even when using zexy/toxy/pool and a handful of assorted other extensions..
if you want to know why, or get closer to knowing why, you can compile pd with the '-ggdb' flag, then run 'gdb pd' then 'run' then 'bt' when it crashes, to get a detailed backtrace with line numbers. this would save developers time..especially when they can't recreate the bug.
But still - unstable is unstable, and for a live performance or installation, that's a BIG problem. What am I to do if PD crashes in the middle of a 45 minutes piece with live musicians???
keep a second PD instance on the ready, minimized?