marius schebella wrote:
To me it seems there is not really a clear direction of what Pd should be. Speaking as a user I only can speculate, but most probably none of the people who have contributed Pd code have ever agreed on a certain featurelist of a final version. Or whether there should be a v 1.0 at all.
Especially in free software, numbering is quite different from proprietary software. Just think of anything without RC or testing or unstable or experimental in the version as a reliable version despite of its numbering. And read changelogs before updating the software, but that applies to proprietary software as well (but with free software it's usually easier to go back to former versions as there tend to be older versions around somewhere).
btw. it is too late for this year's prix ars electronica, but since there is a category "digital community" Pd definitely should go for that next year...
That's definitely an option. How about collecting ideas for the appliance in a wiki starting now?
cu Thomas
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