[PD-dev] double precision pd?

[Antoine Rousseau]

>
> My trouble with Pd64 is that it will get listed next to Pd in almost any
> package manager and may be many people
> opt Pd64 (thinking that is the one for 64bit cpus)


I think almost all (recent) package managers no longer offer 32bit-CPU
packages?...

Antoine



Le mer. 7 juin 2023 à 13:08, Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com> a
écrit :

> > Funnily, my personal feeling is the opposite :-)
> > I feel that Pd64 clearly describes Pd working with 64 bit data.
>
>
> I myself don't have any trouble with whatever name we use as I know
> perfectly well the situation. My trouble with Pd64 is that it will get
> listed next to Pd in almost any package manager and may be many people
> opt Pd64 (thinking that is the one for 64bit cpus)
>
> Pd2 is also a good one.
>
>
> --
>
> Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.
>
> On 07/06/2023 07:55, Antoine Rousseau wrote:
> > Le mer. 7 juin 2023 à 10:47, Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>
> > a écrit :
> >
> >     For me pd64 gives more chances of confusion than pdd or pdpd.
> >
> >  (...)
> >
> >     Starting with a new name of the app seems the most sane.
> >
> >
> > Funnily, my personal feeling is the opposite :-)
> > I feel that Pd64 clearly describes Pd working with 64 bit data.
> > I think that confusion with 64 bit architectures will become less
> > present, since nowadays most (all?) major platforms are based on 64
> > bit CPUs. So "64 bit" is just a particular taste of CPUs, as in x86_64
> > or arm64, which has no direct impact from the user's point of view. If
> > you want to work with 64bit-wide data on a 32bit PPC, you just need
> > Pd64-PPC32, on arm64 it will be Pd64-arm64.
> >
> > To me, "pdd" or "pdpd" really sound like different apps, which I find
> > a bit strange (it's actually the same app, only different options).
> > I quite like Pd² or even Pd2, though.
> >
> >
> > .
>
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