[PD] windows compile - one last try

[day 5]

alright,

I have to say, for the most part I agree with Yves.

If a user 'needs software right now for his/her gig tomorrow night' it 
might actually be better to spend money on something like MaxMSP rather 
than chasing down countless bugs on such a horrible build system like 
MinGW on a proprietary box like MS-Windows.

Did you pay your $195 license fee? Microsoft has their eye on you.... 
remember the EULA you clicked before installing anything? That could 
land you in a whole mess of legal trouble if you don't watch what you 
do very closely... Rather than insult the free software efforts and 
donated time of countless people it might be better in this case to 
simply spend the money on the product that assuredly works within the 
time you need it by so, as you say, you can have the maximum time 
dedicated to making music.

The rationale? Well, someone somewhere gets paid a LOT of money to 
perfect things like the Max GUI objects to work on Windows. Last time I 
checked, no one gets paid in this way for developing Pd. Sure maybe 
matju or Hans get paid some money by some interested party to have GEM 
support in GridFlow or Hans gets paid to build the pd-extended 
distribution on every *nix there is, but the point is - Your time is 
also worth money.

So you can either spend some money to buy a commercial product that has 
been endlessly debugged to 'perform right now for what you need it for 
at this moment without issues' or you can spend your own time donating  
fixes and chasing bugs that will no doubt help others along the way in 
the future, in your similar situation.

Personally I find trying to compile things on Windows is like traveling 
through a sewer. Sure, you get to your destination all right but at the 
end when its over you say to yourself "did I really have to go through 
all that just now??? Boy I smell bad"



./d5

On Nov 10, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Yves Degoyon wrote:

>
> well, i must say the first agressive message was not mine,
> but like, 'pd is shit - i will buy a serious software'
>
> i just said ok for this,
> but i didn't know you really tried on linux,
> so it's a pity your usb card doesn't work,
> could you give more details?
> maybe someone here knows how to fix it.
>
> i personaly stopped supporting windows,
> but that's only my choice.
>
> sevy