[PD-dev] release time?

[Antoine Rousseau]

>
> we should retire the public iemgui API
>

does this mean that mknob (or iemgui library) would have to be entirely
rewritten, by copying/adapting the entire iemgui API to mkob source tree?

not caring about ABI breakage
>

the ABI compatibility is already broken IIUC ;-)

GUI objects aren't that common for Pd, unfortunately
>

obviously... there would be many more with a better (and more stable...)
GUI system. We all feel that we need to move forward.
@IOhannes is it for this reason that you want to retract the iemgui API? To
have freer hands when modifying the GUI code?

I totally understand this reason; however, maybe we can wait here, since
it's unlikely that someone starts a new GUI project on the current
codebase, before we switch to a better system...
I wouldn't want to have to rewrite the mknob, which would be needed by
someone (not me actually...) who would need Pd 0.54 at the same time....
We could simply discourage new developers from using the API, maybe
signaling it's about to be deprecated.

Antoine


Le lun. 28 nov. 2022 à 03:48, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com> a
écrit :

>
>
> Em dom., 27 de nov. de 2022 às 23:33, Alexandre Torres Porres <
> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> We can investigate.
>>
>
> besides moonlib's knob, the knob from 'flatgui' also uses it.
>
> I also found objects in "iemgui" that uses it, like [cube_sphere] (I guess
> "IEM" can easily take care of this one hehe).
>
> These are all the ones found in Pd Extended. I don't remember or know of
> any new compiled GUIs popping up since its demise that would use this. The
> ones from ELSE don't use it, the ones from CEAMMC don't either.
>
> Again, GUI objects aren't that common for Pd, unfortunately.
>
> cheers
>
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