Hi everyone! Questions from a new processing user, hope someone might point me towards docs, info etc.
I’m involved with keeping some old pieces for live-electronics audio+video alive. Typically they’re laid out in software like Max/MSP, Tom Demeyers Image/ine software or similar.
An important aim is to get rid of as much as possible of hard/software dependencies, esp. proprietary stuff. Hopefully this will be an once-and-for-all job, where a chosen solution will last for a long time.
In the audio world, Pure-data vanilla, together with Miller Puckette and others 'pdrp-project: pdrp project addresses these issues explicitly, and already gets a long way towards minimizing such problems.
My question is whether similar considerations are part of the processing development, if there are development branches focusing specially on such issues etc. Any pointers to discussions etc., or perhaps other forums where such issues may be more relevant, are much welcomed.
Yes, guess OpenSource is most important towards future compatibility. However, lots of FLOSS-ware die, even after years of widespread use. Issues might be relying heavily on a few core developers, employees doing dev as part of their job, 3rd-party libraries etc.
Possibly there’s a trade-off between convenience now, and reliability in the long run?