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                            Mathieu Bouchard &lt;matju@artengine.ca&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Jonathan Wilkes &lt;jancsika@yahoo.com&gt;;                                                     <br>
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                            Morgan Packard &lt;morgan@morganpackard.com&gt;; Richie Cyngler &lt;glitchpop@gmail.com&gt;; pd list &lt;pd-list@iem.at&gt;;                                                                             <br>
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                            Re: [PD] noob question: trying to repurpose the G08.reverb.pd example                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:<BR><BR>&gt; Why not always put your abstractions in the same directory as the patch?  (Or in a<BR>&gt; subdirectory if you want to organize them that way.)  It makes things more modular:<BR>&gt; e.g., you can just compress the containing directory and shoot it off rather than<BR>&gt; sending a separate attachment for abstractions and have them copy your manually-entered<BR>&gt; search patch settings (which most likely will not be the same across platforms).<BR><BR>But sending a separate attachment also makes things more modular, as it allows using the exact same abstraction collection over several different patches. As those object-classes (abstractions) become more familiar, they become something that doesn't have to be relearned per-project and it becomes a common vocabulary across projects.<BR><BR>It's two different kinds of
 modularity.<BR><BR> _______________________________________________________________________<BR>| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC<BR></td>
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