On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Even better would be to have OS-specific packages based on Pd- extended, including Debian, RedHat, etc.
It depends. I am scared of trying to do that, because it seems to me to be a maintainance nightmare. I also think that there is too much duplicated functionality in pd-extended, which makes it bloated.
I see the usefulness of pd extended for the user, but as a developer I just can't invest my spare time into something that I think is not a good thing. Most of the externals in pd-extended are for beginners, when people do not know how to solve a problem in pd, they just look if an external for solving their problem exists.
The idea of the CVS was not to throw everything in a pot and cook it, but to extract the useful parts and combine efforts.
Anyhow, I have said that several times already, and please don't get me wrong, I think pd-extended is great for the user and for being able to quickly install everything that is around, but I just can not invest my time on working on something where I constantly have to fix things that I think that shouldn't be there in the first place.
Official Debian/Ubuntu packages of pd-extended are very unlickely to come from my side.
Günter
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