<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alexandre Torres Porres <<a href="mailto:porres@gmail.com" class="">porres@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">I have the idea that extended's development was highly centralized, not that I mean to imply that this was the intention, but it seems to me that's how it went, so when it was abandoned, it was hard to take it further - I might be totally wrong in my analysis so please feel free to correct me.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was the fact that extended:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. largely relied on the efforts of 1 person</div><div class="">2. was hard to build, as Jonathan mentioned</div><div class="">3. was largely centralized (not a huge deal as anyone could get SVN access if they really wanted it)</div><div class="">4. largely diverged from Pd vanilla to the point where it would be pretty difficult to integrate new versions of vanilla, especially if you are not “the 1 person” with the knowledge</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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”.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">What I wanna say is that I just hope more people get involved and collaborate with Purr Data and Pd-L2ork, so it benefits from an actual community effort where development happens faster.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sure. I would point out that this was the intent of Pd-extended as well. I hope that Purr Data will find a way to overcome extended problems 1 & 4, if it hasn’t already.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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