Hi Miller,
Just very generally BTW: Do you mean binary compatibility or patch compatibility? Either way, what are your thoughts about the possibility of a future Pd-1.0 which would break (some kind of) compatibility for the sake of revolutionary progress?
András
I'm unwilling to break either patch or binary compatibility - Pd's original purpose is for interactive music and art and there is a big repertory now depending on Pd to remain runnable.
I'm willing to make minor compatibility changes protected by compatibility switches. Pd now maintains a global compatibility version number to try to facilitate this. (It was necessitated by two bugs in DSP objects, one rather serious, that I wanted to fix without breaking old patches that might depend on the buggy behavior.)
On a side note, the reason I'm so slow to add fetures to Pd is that I want to be sure that everything I do is something I'm willing to maintain for as long as I can.
cheers Miller