<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>I would have had another alpha release recently, but the OSX machine <br></div><div dir="ltr">I use "updated" itself before I could finish building.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463336766293_4937">-Jonathan<br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, May 15, 2016 1:21 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@vt.edu> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 5/14/2016 9:02 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> i don't think that Pd-l2ork offers more than that.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">While I reckon deciding whether pd-l2ork offers more than pd is very <br clear="none">much a personal value-driven decision, here are a few things I can think <br clear="none">of that are unique to pd-l2ork:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">*monolithic distro--one download has it all<br clear="none">*infinite undo and a number of usability improvements (advanced <br clear="none">auto-patching, tidying up, to-front/back options, etc.)<br clear="none">*system-wide presets that can also distinguish between two instances of <br clear="none">the same abstraction<br clear="none">*K12 mode that allows for newcomers to get started quickly, including <br clear="none">easy interfacing with wiimotes, arduinos, and raspberry pis; this mode <br clear="none">is interchangeable with the non-K12 modes and has been used in over <br clear="none">dozen maker camps and workshops by middle school children all the way up <br clear="none">to professionals<br clear="none">*accelerated SVG-based GUI (and a new alpha version that uses Chrome's <br clear="none">node webkit thanks to the hard work by Jonathan)<br clear="none">*unique externals like disis_gpio and disis_spi that offer easy <br clear="none">integration with RPi, including software PWM on all GPIOs and many other <br clear="none">features<br clear="none">*out of box flext support with disis_munger~<br clear="none">*the most complete wiimote support for Linux including passthrough mode <br clear="none">and newest wiimote plus devices using a libCwiid fork we maintain as <br clear="none">part of pd-l2ork; in L2Ork we connect up to 18 wiimotes in the same <br clear="none">space on a regular basis without any problems whatsoever<br clear="none">*out of box RTcmix~ external<br clear="none">*improved ggee/image external with support for transparencies, pngs, etc.<br clear="none">*iemgui objects that have handles for easy resizing and automatic font <br clear="none">adjustment<br clear="none">*searchable documentation browser<br clear="none">*object tooltips<br clear="none">*cord inspector<br clear="none">*over 1,000 patches and bug-fixes<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ico<div class="yqt1903382893" id="yqtfd44690"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>