On 2016-03-08 12:05, oli_kester wrote:
I'm using pd-extended 0.43.4
...sigh...¹ ¹ http://lists.puredata.info/search?P=Pd-extended&DEFAULTOP=and&G=pd-l...
Not sure what this is supposed to articulate - do you mean to say that the extras are no longer supported,
and I shouldn't expect them to work properly? Explain please :)
just sharing my personal experience here:
when i picked up PD again a few weeks ago, i first was excited about the PD-extended distribution. However, as the puredata.info site says, this project is unmaintained and considered outdated.
i too experienced the difficulties your described with PD-extended, and after reading through the list, i got the overall impression, that PD-extended should be avoided in general.
i don't know the exact historical or technical reasons, but i decided to listen to the PD guru's advice. my actual setup consists of the latest PD-vanilla and whatever externals i REALLY need. since ZEXY and IEMLIB is maintained by the IEM people (who are probably the strongest and longest serving backbone in the PD department) i figure they are pretty save to use even for future PD releases.
that said, as a matter of fact i do use compiled .dlls from the last windows PD-extended version, always specifiying search paths in the PD startup script. as long as they work ... good, but i'm aware that this is not rock solid and i try to use them as little as possible and rather patch my own abstractions for specific needs with vanilla objects.
just my 2c
best
oliver