I know Hans is probably the person who needs to answer this with any authority, but I think rc5 is totally rippin'... for general use it almost never crashes for me on linux (this depends on what libs you load and use though, naturally). And it has that sexy Deja Vu Sans Mono font!

If your novices will be using different OSes, in my experience pd-extended is probably the simplest way to get around the potential headaches. Your other options would be putting together packages (zip files?) of the binaries (you would have to have them for each architecture in use) or going with the crusty crustacean 0.38-4 extended.

On 9/14/07, Phil Stone <pkstone@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

Hi Hans,

I'm refactoring the synthesizer I released a couple of weeks ago
(polywavesynth  -- no more camels, Frank!), and I very much want to use
Mr. Peach's OSC object, which are rolled into 0.39.3-ex-rc5.  I'm
wondering if it's wise, at this point, to require 0.39.3-ex-rc5 for my
synth?  It seems pretty stable -- it's just that it's still in
autobuilds and I don't know if it needs to be frozen before I should
specify it -- keeping in mind that it might be novices downloading and
using this rc5.

I'm also eagerly following the 0.40 autobuilds (or was, until the
MacIntel machine disappeared :-) ), and look forward to a stable release
there - but I suppose that's a bit further away, eh?

Thanks for what you do with PD-extended; there wouldn't be a chance of
an object like polywavesynth being usable by novices without it.

Phil Stone
pkstonemusic.com

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