[Pd] active and tot not right in pd-extended

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

The real difference between Finale and Lillypond is that people have  
spent a lot more time fixing bugs on Finale since they've been paid  
to do it.  Most free software programming is done on a volunteer basis.

That said, every little contribution helps.  If you are not a C or  
Tcl hacker, you can still contribute a lot.  Documentation is always  
needed.  And a Pd patch that will reliably trigger a bug is 90% of  
the work for fixing that bug.

.hc

On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> Unfortunately, professional musicians who aren't programmers can't
> rely on free open source software at this point.  I tried, though I
> was leery about Lilypond, I gave it a chance and got pretty interested
> in it.  Then for whatever reason it began arbitrarily leaving out
> ties.  Whatever drawbacks Windows and Mac have, I've never had that
> happen in Finale or Sibelius.  The Lilypond group didn't care and
> didn't appreciate me mentioning it.  I was really gung-ho about OSS,
> but if I need something by tomorrow I need it by tomorrow.  I also had
> problems with Rosegarden et al.
> No open-source programmer wants to spend weeks or months making
> infinitesimal changes to an interface to shave seconds off some
> shmoe's production time, for free.  And that shmoe (me, for instance)
> is likely to rely on a system that has software designed to shave
> seconds off his production time.
> I suspect this is changing.
>
> On 9/13/06, Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Probably because once people learn to program and if they don't work
>> for a commercial software firm, they'd rather leverage (and extend)
>> their knowledge with the open codebase that GNU/Lnix provides instead
>> of tinkering on Windows.
>>
>> Kind of a Catch-22, eh?
>>
>> On 9/13/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Even better, how about fixing this problem in the Pd-extended  
>> installer?
>> > There are a lot of really trivial bugs in the Windows distro  
>> that would be
>> > easy to fix and make life much better for Windows users.  Its  
>> just that no
>> > one seems to want to work on Windows.
>> >
>> > .hc
>>
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