On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> I am bummed that we have to even discuss Apple's anti-free-software >> tactics in relation to the design of Pd. The only reason why you >> can't include externals as libdirs on the official iPhone is because >> of Apple's ridiculous restrictions that are in place solely for the >> purpose of making the Apple iTunes Store a monopoly. > > The decision, not to bundle the 102MB of externals currently in > pd-extended into RjDj has *absolutely nothing* to do with Apple's > license policy or any other licence issues: It's a technical decision > made by the RjDj team. By keeping RjDj's number of objects limited we > aim to avoid a maintainance nightmare and provide everyone with that > least common denominator: Pd vanilla and a small number of selected > externals. This will be the same for future ports to other platforms. > > And personally I made a very similar decision by avoiding to use too > many externals on my GNU/Linux machine.
I am not talking about including files, I am talking about the forced static linking, i.e no dlopen(). It makes sense to me to not include 102 MB of files for rjdj, no complaints about that. .hc > > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
