On May 25, 2007, at 9:28 AM, victor wrote:
Hi, I love pd :) but after many years from its creation, why some times it seem a casd's castle?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/max/castle/img/cardcast.jpg
After to read in that list the tipical question "pix_video don't work". I'm thinking about pd
do you think that gem is a mature proyect for video creation? why not? why the evolution is slow? or simply why there are not a object for to save pretty videos in open formats? (same asks for pdp).
A lot of the time, the code is there, it's just hard to package it into something that works for everyone. There are a lot of patent issues with the various codecs, and some of the libs can be difficult to work with.
Maybe the extended version is a valuable effort for to have a open platform for creatives.
My main goal with the Pd-extended was to make a common platform to distribute all of the great code for Pd. By having a standard platform across all OS's, it means that we can all spend less time setting up Pd and wrestling with different configurations. It is not meant to be a branch at all. For example, it would be pretty straightforward to make a desiredata-extended, which would have all the same libs, but installed into desiredata instead of Pd. The bottom line is that Pd-extended is a distro, not a branch/fork. Like Debian is a distro of many packages, and you can use many different kernels with that distro (Linux, FreeBSD, HURD).
Then which is the sense of desiredata? (https://devel.goto10.org/desiredata)
AFAICT, desiredata is focusing on the editing environment rather than new libraries or functionality to the language. They have a bunch of interesting ideas that could make patching much more fluid and satisfying.
.hc
summarizing: Which is the next future of PureData
thanks
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