Burn it down, purge and disappear with it would be bad.Īnother scenario is that FLOSS can still be around, of course, but as a museum piece, for those interested in web archeology, as extended is now an archeological piece of software. Or just get rid of the FLOSS version? Well, that is there, and people know it. Should we then remove the included and official manual from Pd and 'move it' to FLOSS and completely overhaul that online version? So, my point is we have to get rid of one of them and have a single official one. Csound also has the 'Canonical Csound reference manual', which is actually something else and not to be confused with "The" manual they provide in FLOSS. See the problem? Csound uses FLOSS Manuals as a place to provide its official manual. The point of FLOSS is to provide the one and only official and single Manual for a piece of software. One is the official one, included as part of Pd Vanilla and its documentation, and this other one, which is terribly outdated and actually refers to this unsupported and abandoned fork of Pd.īut the point is, one software cannot have two concurring Manuals, even if both are up to date - that'd be silly. But these days we have something weird, which is simply the fact that Pure Data has these two manuals. Actually, Pd Vanilla's manual also refers to FLOSS Manuals. We're still struggling with a post Pd Extended issue and what was consolidated in its era but now sits as ruins. Lots of people seem to get to it and consider it "the manual for Pd". The point is that there's a conflict and I guess this made sense then, but it's a problem nowadays. ![]() Anyway, this is also something I brought up on github and is not the issue here. Back in the day we basically all used just Extended anyway and were mostly oblivious to Pd Vanilla and its manual.Īnd by Pd's manual, I mean - I know that's called 'Pd Documentation', and that it is confusing, cause it actually is an 'html Manual' and it refers to itself as "this html manual". For what I see, it was a Manual that came to be in the Extended era as a Manual to it. It's old and it tells you how to instal Pd Extended 0.39! So, it's from the extended era and still references to 'extended objects'. Pd has this very famous and long lasting FLOSS Manual. Folks, we're on a roll debating all things related to Pd documentation here and there and I'm now focusing on the Pd FLOSS Manuals issue.
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