[GEM-dev] pix_write relative path - osx

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Dec 1 20:24:51 CET 2011


On Dec 1, 2011, at 1:59 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2011-12-01 19:55, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>> btw, the help-patch pix_blocktracker-help.pd does not depend on iemmatrix.
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>> pix_blocktracker-help.pd definitely depends on iemmatrix because it depends on pix_blocktracker.pd.  So its just silly to not use iemmatrix in pix_blocktracker-help.pd.
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> how come?
> pix_blobtracker-help.pd depends on [pix_blobtracker], which depends on
> iemmatrix.
> this is different from pix_blobtracker-help depending on iemmatrix.
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> i don't see any reason to use iemmatrix within pix_blobtracker-help.pd
> it's not needed.
> 
> it's plain silly to use an external where it is not needed nor providing
> any useful functionality.

Of course don't add dependencies that are not needed.  You mentioned that pix_multiblob outputs data that vanilla objects don't handle well, so it seems relevant.  I am saying its silly to avoid using iemmatrix in pix_blobtracker-help.pd since pix_blobtracker.pd already depends on it.

.hc



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