[PD] Mess and redundancy in the Pd eco system (was: [range] / [maxlib/scale] for audio)

2015-06-05 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Fre, 2015-06-05 at 14:32 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: I couldn't find a [range] object in Pd-extended. I have it in 0.42, maybe yours is 0.43 - it's located in flatspace, but it doesn't even have a help file... Wow, you're missing so much new stuff... (and yes, I was checking

Re: [PD] Mess and redundancy in the Pd eco system (was: [range] / [maxlib/scale] for audio)

2015-06-05 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
I'm actually ok with lots of mess, check my apartment. What actually bums me out is that the maintenance is dead, and there's no sign anything is gonna happen. Last time someone discussed it was 6 months ago and it just went silent... I'd really like to spend a lot of personal effort in this, Pd

Re: [PD] Mess and redundancy in the Pd eco system (was: [range] / [maxlib/scale] for audio)

2015-06-05 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
I'd actually like to know better the issues behind extended, and why is it so hard to just update it to the newer vanilla version and let people manage/update the libraries/externals... Why, for instance, can't I update a library like cyclone and release a new updated version of extended (let it