[PD] ubuntu ppa's

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] ubuntu ppa's
> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>
> Cc: "PD list" <pd-list at iem.at>, "august" <august at alien.mur.at>
> Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 6:26 PM
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Hans-Christoph
> Steiner wrote:
> 
> > pd-arraysize
> 
> There is no point in making tiny packages like that. In C,
> the command for that is a one-liner.

In Pd, it's also a one-liner: [expr size("myArray")].  Well, I guess 
it's a three-liner if you want the same functionality as [arraysize]:

[loadbang]
|
[symbol myArray(
|
[expr size("$s1")]

So what is the point of [arraysize] in the first place?  Is the package 
there for compatibility for people who have already used [arraysize] 
without having known about [expr]?

-Jonathan

> Why would it have to be
> not only accompanied by many lines of wrapper commands, but
> also further lines of comments, its own file, license
> headers, and then a freaking deb package ?
> 
> Where are those packages :
>   glibc-printf
>   glibc-sprintf
>   glibc-fprintf
>   glibc-sin
>   glibc-cos
> 
> Beyond a certain point, breaking things into little
> packages is stupid.
> 
> 
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