[PD-dev] svn:externals, pd-extended, SVN and the goal of it all

[Frank Barknecht]

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

> I think then there could be a simple distro system like Eclipse has  
> for managing plugins. (Basically, there is a simple format for  
> posting a library to a website.  The user then adds the repo URL to  
> the program, which then has a browser for all available installation  
> options and updates).

Recently another metaphor came to my mind - and of course it has to be
taken with a grain of salt like all metaphors: Mozilla vs.
Firefox/Thunderbird/Sundbird, ...

pd-extended to me very much feels like Mozilla in that it tries to
provide as much "apps" as possible crammed into a single-click
installable suite. Compare that to Firefox, which is only a very basic
browser with functionality stripped down so much, that the first thing
everyone does is install some extenstions. Nevertheless Firefox took
off in a big way and Mozilla is more or less dead. 

I think, this had two reasons. First reason: People who liked the
browser in Mozilla didn't care about the mail component at that time.
They used Mutt, Outlook, or whatever.  (Funnily now that it's a
separate app, Thunderbird became popular as well.) The second reason
is the extensions and theme system of Firefox which made it very easy
to install only the updates, that a user is interested in, without all
the bloat of Mozilla.

I don't know if something can be learned from that history, though.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__