<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think it's much simpler to just add a call to get/set the message limit, say:<div><br></div><div>int libpd_max_message_length();</div><div>void libpd_set_max_message_length(int length);</div><div><br></div><div>This doesn't break any current code.</div><div><br></div><div>Having to set a custom limit each time is far more tedious then just setting it at startup.</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Peter Brinkmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Peter Brinkmann wrote:<br>
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For the time being, I have something much simpler in mind: Just take the current call "int libpd_start_message(void)", which returns the current limit, and replace it with "int libpd_start_message(int length)", which takes a parameter indicating the length of the message and returns a nonzero error code if the length is too big.<br>
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But this means that new libpd-using apps won't compile with old versions of libpd AND vice-versa.<br></blockquote><br>Well, the vast majority of users won't notice any difference at all because they're using the Android or iOS branch, which I'm updating as I go along. The only people who are affected by this are those who are using the C library directly, and I hope that they'll either be willing to update their code (which should be no more than a two-line change in most cases) or just stick to the current version, which will remain available via git.<br>
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In any case, I think everybody understands that this is still a young library that
needs to adapt as we gain a better understanding of how people
are using it, and the cost of making a small incompatible change is a lot lower than choosing a suboptimal solution for compatibility with an earlier version. This period of youthful innocence is coming to an end, though; the API has been quite stable for quite a while now, and I believe that it'll soon be time to declare it finished. I want to take a critical look at every piece before we officially lock the API, and I won't be afraid to cut things that may turn out to be a burden in the long run. (That's why I floated the idea of getting rid of the simple message assembly mechanism, but it looks like that's here to stay.)<br>
Cheers,<br> Peter<br><br></div>
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