status of unauthorized

Hi folks, first of all, sorry, really sorry...

I'm not checking the list for a while. I'm filtering them and really not
checking. I'm dumb, but at least I know how to filter emails. I am writing
to the list because someone told me a private conversation of mine has been
exposed to the list (where I also share the fact I am filtering the
emails). So I wanted to say I'm sorry for that.

There are things from that message that I regret that were exposed and
leaked, as in my impulse I said things I didn't actually mean and I wanted
to take it back, or also clarify them.

I mentioned that Pd-Extended favored quantity over quality. I actually
believe that, but I don't mean to say that it was a bad thing. I value that
initiative. After all, I got a library with over 550 externals (and
counting), and that is a big quantity...

I also said that it was good that Extended had died, so we could get rid of
some bad code. Well, I actually do agree with that, but I need to say that
this is because it was just a burden to have to maintain and carry too many
libraries that have been abandoned by the original authors. That's the
unfortunate part, that many people couldn't keep up with the good work we
had going on decades ago (some people didn't even want the code in there, I
hear). Also, let me add, if they were still working on updating these
libraries, there was not that much need for Extended and we could just keep
installing them on Vanilla.

Now for the main thing I regret! I said bad things about unauthorized and I
am deeply sorry. I really wanna take that back! Having a better look at it,
it is a wonderful library and I am actually in a phase where I want to dive
in deep into tcl/tk coding, and this library has some awesome GUI objects!
It feels like the perfect opportunity for me to hyperfocus on it and learn
something from a master. I mean, c'mon, playlist is damn cool, who was I
kidding in badmouthing that?

For last, I said that it was good that Extended died so we could get rid of
Unauthorized. And I'm really taking that back. And to prove, I wanted to
share that I just forked Unauthorized. I extracted it from the Purr Data
repository, which makes a damn good job keeping the legacy of Extended
alive. Unfortunately, they haven't ported unauthorized's code to their
frontgui, so the best part of it is missing. So yeah, I am now building and
getting the code to compile with pdlibbuilder, and I will get them to work
in all the main current platforms. Raspberry Pis and whatnot. I already
have most of the objects compiled for apple silicon. When it is ready, I
will upload them to deken when it's ready, and you'll hear about it in the
pd-announce list.

Here it is ==> https://github.com/porres/pd-unauthorized

I just altered the README from the Purr Data repository a bit and included
a few lines. Let me share that with you

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This repository was forked by Porres and extracted from the Purr Data
repository. It has been adapted to use pdlibbuilder and be compiled
with the most recent version of Pd Vanilla.

Note from PORRES: "I want to make it very very clear that I am not the
author of this code, which is Yves Degoyon. I would also like to thank
him for writing the code. I am not stealing this code".

Another note from PORRES: "This is supposed to be the same version as
carried by Pd-Extended, and it uses that same old license. The good
thing about this license is that if you end up in the top 10 chart of
Pop music you can still use this library of externals. The bad thing
about this license is that if you use it for military duties and end
up building a nuclear bomb that kills us all, well, we're all gonna
die, so it's bad (I guess?)"

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I am still off the mailing list, not checking it, and I don't wanna hear
about it. Even if something like nude pics of mine get leaked here
(specially if something like that happens). Let me hyperfocus on working on
unauthorized now. I'll check back when I get out of my new hyperfocus and
announce on the Pd-announce list my new deken upload.

Sorry again

Bye...

ps. I'd like to say I really love this community and I wanna really thank
everyone who is still keeping it up and working on stuff and sharing. Many
who have contributed in the past surely need to be praised too but I wanted
to *really really really really* thank people who have been volunteering to
work on Pd for years, or literally decades now and have contributed as much
as possible.

<3

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