Re: [PD] Cyclone future

-- Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Associate Professor Computer Music ICAT Senior Fellow Director -- DISIS, L2Ork Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts – 0141 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 ico@vt.edu www.performingarts.vt.edu disis.icat.vt.edu l2ork.icat.vt.edu ico.bukvic.net On Feb 23, 2016 4:47 PM, "Alexandre Torres Porres" porres@gmail.com wrote: > I'm seconding Dan on this, name ideas was something being proposed to me > and all before Fred shared his intention to stop working on "cyclone". I > didn't even liked the idea of forking cyclone then, the reason being that > there was no significant change for for projects, one only being able to be > updated... > > > now, from a previous thread > > 2016-02-20 15:57 GMT-02:00 Matt Barber brbrofsvl@gmail.com: > >> If a Max 4.6 compatibility library is really necessary, perhaps that >> could be the fork with the new name. >> > > I agree to Matt on this too, but with the remark that Max 4.6 > compatibility would also be present in the updates and further development > of cyclone > > keeping it simple, the whole issue camos with some of us wanting to > collaborate and work on updates of cyclone, and the current maintainer > having issues with it, it's not that he didn't want to spend his time > working on it, more like he was against that others would help him do that. > > do we really need to fork in order to update a library keeping its > original goal? > > I'm ok with whatever the community think it's best. I already started > working a lot on this and now I'm just on it, 20 new objects in the way, a > whole revision of all help files going on, it's happening... > > cheers > > 2016-02-23 18:08 GMT-03:00 Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com: > >> If neither krzysztof not Fred plan to continue development, why can’t it >> continue under the same name? (Keeping attribution of course!) I’d argue >> multiple libraries is more confusing to the user especially when they all >> provide roughly the same functionality but the main one is now very out of >> date. That, plus the fact that urging people to use [declare -lib cyclone] >> now requires urging people to do a batch find/replace for “cyclone” when, >> again, the functionality is the same. >> >> -------- >> Dan Wilcox >> @danomatika https://twitter.com/danomatika >> danomatika.com >> robotcowboy.com >> >> On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:32 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote: >> >> i therefore ask both fred and alexandre to change the name of their >> library, so that they cannot be confused with both the original cyclone >> library and with each other: neither of the forks is an (or /the/) >> "official" fork. >> for what it is worth, git makes it easy to incorporate changes between >> forks (using pull requests, cherry picking,...) even if the names are >> different! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >