[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 released!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/30/2013 04:17 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Hi Hans
> 
> On Die, 2013-01-29 at 15:36 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Its time to announce the next big Pd-extended release, 0.43.4!
> 
> Congrats! Despite expressing many times how limited your time is (and
> probably even more so with a family), the new release really is a
> milestone. Great achievement! Impressive list of improvements, bug
> fixes, new features. Many thanks to you and everyone involved. 
> 
> Personally, I welcome many of your decisions like not loading libraries
> per default, requiring a maintainer for each lib, removing unmaintained
> libs. In my experience it was never so easy to write portable patches
> between pd + libs and pd-extended. It's a huge goal to provide a
> consistent experience across platforms, but from what I saw in recent
> times this goal is largely satisfied. It is really comfortable to tell
> people: "You just need to install Pd-extended for running this patch"
> and they don't have to bother with any special settings or
> configurations.
> 
> Keep up the good work!
> Roman

Thanks for the feedback!  That's great to hear, cross-install compatibility
and ease of setup are really two main goals of all this.  I want to see
sharing patches to be as easy as possible.

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