--- On Thu, 12/16/10, Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx wrote:
From: Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx Subject: Re: [PD] PD OOP? To: "Mathieu Bouchard" matju@artengine.ca Cc: "PD List" pd-list@iem.at Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 5:40 AM On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:23:24AM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
IMHO, directing your criticism at pd-vanilla alone is
extremely
unproductive. You have to accept the fact that doing
real work in Pd may
require a lot of externals. It's sad, but it's like
that. I wouldn't use
Pd if it didn't have externals.
Some platforms that Pd patches run on support very few externals. If you want to run your patches on a wide variety of platforms it is rational to avoid externals in order to avoid expending a great deal of extra effort.
In many cases it is replaced by the effort required to make a hack to replace the functionality of the missing external. In the cases where a Vanilla hack is not possible, you are either forced to use an external, or you arbitrarily restrict yourself and shrug off the fact that there is no rational way to get features into Vanilla even if (everyone - 1) finds them useful/necessary.
-Jonathan
Salut,
Chris.
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