On Dec 6, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Chris McCormick wrote: >> >>> I think the key point to take from the whole discussion is that >>> Max/MSP >>> users have a choice, whilst under Pd we have no choice. It's all >>> very >>> well justifying how great it is to not have patch chords, but the >>> lack >>> of that feature/bug definately annoys some [potential] users and >>> puts >>> them off Pd. If the people want it, why not give it to them? >> >> Because it's easier to write a condescending justification for the >> lack of >> segmented patchcords than to write the code for segmented patchcords. > > That's exactly the point: From this thread it seems that many of those > people who would be able to implement segmented patchcords aren't > interested in that feature. (You'd be one of the exceptions.) So until > someone comes along who wants seg-cords in Pd and at the same time > could write the code, the feature stays missing. That's not unusual > wiht open source software: features, the developers need, get > implemented faster, others maybe never.
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