[PD] PD OOP?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Thu, 12/16/10, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:

> From: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
> Subject: Re: [PD] PD OOP?
> To: "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju at artengine.ca>
> Cc: "PD List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 5:40 AM
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:23:24AM
> -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > IMHO, directing your criticism at pd-vanilla alone is
> extremely  
> > unproductive. You have to accept the fact that doing
> real work in Pd may  
> > require a lot of externals. It's sad, but it's like
> that. I wouldn't use  
> > Pd if it didn't have externals.
> 
> Some platforms that Pd patches run on support very few
> externals. If you want
> to run your patches on a wide variety of platforms it is
> rational to avoid
> externals in order to avoid expending a great deal of extra
> effort.

In many cases it is replaced by the effort required to make 
a hack to replace the functionality of the missing external.  In the 
cases where a Vanilla hack is not possible, you are either forced 
to use an external, or you arbitrarily restrict yourself and shrug 
off the fact that there is no rational way to get features into 
Vanilla even if (everyone - 1) finds them useful/necessary.

-Jonathan

> 
> Salut,
> 
> Chris.
> 
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