[PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I am bummed that we have to even discuss Apple's anti-free-software  
> tactics in relation to the design of Pd.  The only reason why you  
> can't include externals as libdirs on the official iPhone is because  
> of Apple's ridiculous restrictions that are in place solely for the  
> purpose of making the Apple iTunes Store a monopoly. 

The decision, not to bundle the 102MB of externals currently in
pd-extended into RjDj has *absolutely nothing* to do with Apple's
license policy or any other licence issues: It's a technical decision
made by the RjDj team. By keeping RjDj's number of objects limited we
aim to avoid a maintainance nightmare and provide everyone with that
least common denominator: Pd vanilla and a small number of selected
externals. This will be the same for future ports to other platforms.

And personally I made a very similar decision by avoiding to use too
many externals on my GNU/Linux machine.

Ciao
-- 
Frank Barknecht