[PD] Toughts on PD vs. Max stability on macintels on analogindustries.com

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hear hear! Sure, there are crasher bugs with Pd, but if you aren't  
even going to bother to report them, how can you expect them to be  
fixed?  Most of the developers of Pd use Pd in their own work, and  
therefore are very likely to fix problems they encounter.  I rarely  
encounter crasher bugs because I try to fix them when they happen to  
me.  So that points to something else: the area where the Pd devs work  
are the area where Pd will work best.  I don't know any Pd dev doing a  
lot with VSTs or even MIDI, so that is not where Pd is going to shine.

.hc

On Mar 7, 2011, at 12:23 PM, chris clepper wrote:

> A quick search of the mailing list and bug tracker don't reveal  
> anything from Chris Randall.  As a software developer he is no doubt  
> aware that user bug reports are vital to fixing problems.  I think  
> he could have done a bit more to help his situation.
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:45 AM, pierlu <pierlu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I regularly read the blog @ analogindustries.com, and today an
> interesting post about pd vs max/msp stability on macintel appeared.
>
> You can read about it here
> http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.php?blogid=1299508451902
>
> To be honest, I always found pd on PPC macs to be fairly stable for my
> needs, and the author of the post (in comments) points out that on
> pc's pd is fairly stable too.
>
> So I just wanted to bring out the matter to the community, just for
> the sake of discussion. No hatred please! :)
>
> cheers, p.
>
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