rama wrote:
Over the years more and more bugs were fixed, new features implemented and several things changed quite dramatically. After a while a user was asking for Pd versions of oggcast~ and oggamp~ with some of the new features (that were not in the pdogg versions) so I made a backport of the new code to Pd.
i would love you forever if you return to pd some day, i appreciate you work, and I'm using pdogg a lot (a lot!)
I really don't understand your point. It's extra work for me to make (and maintain) Pd versions of my Max externals. But as long as people don't like the fact that the Pd versions are released under the same license as the Max versions I should probably stop to do that at all. I always thought it would be better to have a non-open external than no external at all. That way at least people who don't care whether they are allowed to read the source code can profit from it.
To be honest, one reason for me to use Max much more often than Pd (and a reason for developing for Max, not Pd) is the attitude of the users. Max users can accept the fact that not everything is free (as in beer or in freedom or both). (Sorry, I don't want to say that all Pd users in general can't do that, but there are a lot who pretend they can't.) In the end this strict view on the open vs. closed debate is also bad for Pd because it prevents some things from being coded (or released) at all.
Olaf