--- On Sat, 7/9/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 10:38 PM > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > > > > > --- On Sat, 7/9/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> The problem with forks is if improvements don't > migrate > >> upstream. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. Ok. So in patch id#2838176, what is Guenter's idea for a clean implementation of tooltips that you were referring to? I didn't find anything on the user or dev list. > > >> Try getting a patch into the Linux kernel, > >> that'll make Pd seem like cake ;-) > > > > 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. I read a white paper on total development cost of a linux distro and just remembered "linux". I think the distro in the paper was Fedora 9, which was estimated to be almost an order of magnitude more expensive than the Linux kernel. -Jonathan > > .hc > > > > > -Jonathan > > > >> > >> .hc > >> > >> > >>> > >>> -Jonathan > >>> > >>>> And > >>>> anything assigned to Miller and reviewed > >> positively by > >>>> IOhannes I'm > >>>> going to defer any action on until Miller > >> responds. > >>>> > >>>> .hc > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -Jonathan > >>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>> mailing list > >>>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management > -> > >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> "[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world > today > >> [is] my own government." - Martin Luther King, > Jr. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > http://at.or.at/hans/ > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
