On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:37:21PM +0100, Thomas Grill wrote:
Have you ever had a look at the PD internals?
Yes I did, and I submitted a change a few years ago.
You will easily find that everything is open but nothing is documented and as long you haven't spent months on trying to understand what's going on, you won't notice much of a difference between PD and Max in this respect.
The source code being easy to read is not a key factor for choosing free software.
If one is willing to dig into it, one can have great benefits, but my experience tells me that it's not what most people using real-time-systems are interested about.
There cannot be only users, and some people like you are also programmers, and some of them are not even interested by users.
What concerns programming externals, documentation is available for both systems. If you compared just the quality of overall documentation the choice would be simple enough.
Very simple because it's possible to document PD, and also flext. ;-)
-- Marc