[PD-dev] Proposals for object categories
Frank Barknecht
fbar at footils.org
Wed Feb 25 21:11:23 CET 2009
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
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