Thanks a ton for putting together these release notes! I was wondering what all was new!
-Alex On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres <por...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot for all the great efforts on this major update by everyone > involved. > > I'm really happy and excited wit the new features. > > Anyway, thought I'd share the final release notes as well, if anyone > missed the major changes: > > --------------------- > > Release notes: > > ------------------ 0.48-0 ------------------------------ > > It's possible to save and recall "settings" to files, and/or to erase > system settings. On Pcs, the settings are now stored in the "user" resource > area (before, it was per-machine, and users who weren't administrators > apparently couldn't save their settings.) > > On the first startup, Pd queries the user as to whether to create a > directory such as ~/Doculemnts/Pd and set path to point there. Many updates > were also made to the "path" dialog and deken to better integrate > downloading stuff and path maintanance. > > The expr family (expr, expr~, fexpr~) got an update from Shahrokh > Yadegari, and the help file was reorganized and updated by Alexandre > Porres. Many more math functions are supported, and the parser was updated > so that expressions using "if" skip evaluating the argument that isn't used. > > New "fudiparse", "fudiformat" objects. > > New "list store" object for faster and easier concatenation and splitting > apart of lists. > > New notification outlet in "text define" so the patch can know when the > text is changed. > > New "text insert" object. > > "delwrite~" now has a "clear" message. > > "declare -path" inside abstractions was changed so that, if the > declaration isn't an absolute filename, it's relative to the abstraction's > directory, not to the owning patch's directory. This might be considered an > incompatible change; but since the situation with paths declared inside > abstractions has always been so confused, I think nobody will have got away > without editing patches that relied on it as things changed in the past. > > But the biggest changes are under the hood. Pd now can manage more than > one running instance, so that it is possible to make plug-ins of various > sorts out of Pd and they can coexist with each other. This will allow > people to write much better VST plug-ins in Pd. I'm grateful to Carlos > Eduardo Batista for much help on this. > > The Pd API allows starting and/or shutting down the GUI dynamically while > Pd is running. > > Another internal change: the pd~ object now communicates with > sub-processes in binary by default. This increases the numerical accuracy > of signal passing (it should be exact now) and makes the passing back and > forth of audio signals much more efficient. > > Thanks to much effort by Dan Wilcox and Iohannes Zmoelnig, the > compile-and-build system is much improved, especially for Macintosh > computers. One visible effect is that language support is finally working > in the compiled versions on msp.ucsd.edu. > > > 2017-08-13 19:33 GMT-03:00 Miller Puckette <m...@ucsd.edu>: > >> To Pd-announce: >> >> Pd version 0.48-0 is available on http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm >> or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data >> >> cheers >> Miller >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-announce mailing list >> pd-annou...@lists.iem.at >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/li >> stinfo/pd-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list > >
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