[PD] libraries in Pd-extended 0.43

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Dec 16 02:56:21 CET 2010


On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, ALAN BROOKER wrote:

> Overall, at which point is a project forked? When additions are made or 
> taken away? Or just when licence terms are changed? If the code is 
> copied and then released under a different name?In this case it would be 
> the licence change I believe

Literally speaking, there's a fork when there used to be one sequence of 
versions and now there are two parallel sequences of versions. But 
sometimes the term is used even though there is still only one active 
sequence, simply because it is presumed that there might be other versions 
one day in the other sequence. Quite often, such sequences never get 
officially closed.

Those sequences are usually called branches, though sometimes they are 
called "forks", though in non-slang, the fork is the splitting point of 
the branches.

(However, lots of people assume pretty strong connotations about the word 
"fork" but not "branch". I think that it's a "slashdotism" and I reject it 
for reasons I can explain.)

  _______________________________________________________________________
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC


More information about the Pd-list mailing list