From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com>
I have the idea that extended's development was highly centralized, not that I mean to imply that this was the intention, but it seems to me that's how it went, so when it was abandoned, it was hard to take it further - I might be totally wrong in my analysis so please feel free to correct me.
It was the fact that extended:
- largely relied on the efforts of 1 person
- was hard to build, as Jonathan mentioned
- was largely centralized (not a huge deal as anyone could get SVN access if they really wanted it)
- largely diverged from Pd vanilla to the point where it would be pretty difficult to integrate new versions of vanilla, especially if you are not “the 1 person” with the knowledge
But most of all, nobody stepped up to keep it going. There was plenty of wringing of hands but no real effort in the end. I considered it, but I much prefer the new approach of decentralized, easy to build externals and a more robust vanilla, as opposed to me becoming the “extended guy”.
What I wanna say is that I just hope more people get involved and collaborate with Purr Data and Pd-L2ork, so it benefits from an actual community effort where development happens faster.
Sure. I would point out that this was the intent of Pd-extended as well. I hope that Purr Data will find a way to overcome extended problems 1 & 4, if it hasn’t already.
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