I just wish that PD keeps the same philosophy of robustness and simplicity as before. Tuti
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
Le 2012-02-17 à 15:02:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
First off, the pd-gui side of Pd has been re-written from scratch. When you run Pd, you are actually running two programs: pd is the core engine and pd-gui is the GUI. Since basically all computers now come with multiple CPU cores, this means that pd-gui will usually run on a separate CPU core than pd, so they don’t step on each other’s toes.
It was already like that since the first version of pd ever, over 15 years ago. It's misleading to write it in the same paragraph as « the pd-gui side of Pd has been re-written from scratch ». You also don't state which part of the pd-gui has been rewritten from scratch, which obscures the fact that a large fraction of it hasn't been rewritten.
It's a bad idea to take credit for things that Miller had already done or that his contributors had done.
If you want to say, for example, that pd-extended 43 fixes a certain cause of hiccups due to bad sync between the two parts of pd, then you can say it like that, more or less, but a goal to keeping explanations simple doesn't entitle you to say what you have said.
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