On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:That's the idea of Pd-extended: a standard install.
... which still can be immensely different from machine to machine,
like by library updates or by changed start-up defaults (e.g. removal/ addition of loaded libs) or by installing libraries not in pd-x (sssad, rj, ...)
etc.Pd-extended is a more powerful, but in fact less standardized
platform than Pd-vanilla w/o externals. It's in its nature.
That's not a really useful comparison. GNU without X is really
standardized, but if you want a GUI, then you get into GNOME, KDE,
xfce, etc.
Try doing lots of list operations without list-abs on Pd-vanilla, or
try doing OpenGL without Gem on Pd-vanilla. Libraries are very useful
things.
.hc
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