I just wish that PD keeps the same philosophy of robustness and simplicity as before. Tuti
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote: > Le 2012-02-17 à 15:02:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : > >> First off, the pd-gui side of Pd has been re-written from scratch. When >> you run Pd, you are actually running two programs: pd is the core engine and >> pd-gui is the GUI. Since basically all computers now come with multiple CPU >> cores, this means that pd-gui will usually run on a separate CPU core than >> pd, so they don’t step on each other’s toes. > > > It was already like that since the first version of pd ever, over 15 years > ago. It's misleading to write it in the same paragraph as « the pd-gui side > of Pd has been re-written from scratch ». You also don't state which part of > the pd-gui has been rewritten from scratch, which obscures the fact that a > large fraction of it hasn't been rewritten. > > It's a bad idea to take credit for things that Miller had already done or > that his contributors had done. > > If you want to say, for example, that pd-extended 43 fixes a certain cause > of hiccups due to bad sync between the two parts of pd, then you can say it > like that, more or less, but a goal to keeping explanations simple doesn't > entitle you to say what you have said. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ > Pd-announce mailing list > pd-annou...@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- --------- José Fornari (Tuti) http:/sites.google.com/site/tutifornari/ email: tutiforn...@gmail.com skype: tutifornari cel: (11) 8318-8778 _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list