[PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sat Jul 9 22:38:05 CEST 2011


On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> --- On Sat, 7/9/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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>> The problem with forks is if improvements don't migrate
>> upstream.
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> I think it's both a problem-with and a cause-of.

Yup, that makes sense.

>> Then we don't benefit from sharing the
>> fixes.  Making things migrate upstream takes time in
>> itself.
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> How does one figure out who has the responsibility to make sure  
> things migrate upstream (for example: [initbang] and [closebang])?

Mostly by someone deciding its important enough that they want to work  
on it themself, and then lots of testing and communication.

>> Try getting a patch into the Linux kernel,
>> that'll make Pd seem like cake ;-)
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> Yes, I would hope that making changes to the core of the largest  
> free software project in the history of computing is a wee bit more  
> difficult than making changes to Pd.

Actually, there are much bigger projects than Linux, things like  
Debian are quite a bit larger in scale.

.hc

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> -Jonathan
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>> .hc
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>>> -Jonathan
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>>>> And
>>>> anything assigned to Miller and reviewed
>> positively by
>>>> IOhannes I'm
>>>> going to defer any action on until Miller
>> responds.
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>>>> .hc
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>>>>> -Jonathan
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