2016-09-29 23:35 GMT-03:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>:

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”.

Well, one good thing to point is that Pd-L2ork (and its Purr Data branch) started as a fork from Extended (from 0.42-5 may I guess?). So it's not like it died for nothing and, in a sense, Purr Data still keeps it going.

And I have to agree that good stuff came out of it when it was possible to focus attention into vanilla, to make it more robust, and the efforts on pd-lib-builder/deken to make it easier to build and install externals.

In fact, for me, the biggest deal in extended was all the extended libraries, but most of them were just abandoned... what good is that? Where I'm getting at is that one way to get involved and help in the "expanded Pd flavours" could be taking care of libraries. Like updating cyclone objects to max 7 :)

cheers