[PD-dev] extending the .pd format

smoerk smoerk at gmx.de
Thu Mar 25 02:33:17 CET 2004


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Because the file format is the same as the pd message format.  So you 
> would lose the "Pure Data"ness of Pd by having the file format different 
> than pd messages.  I suppose you could make pd messages also be XML, but 
> that would take away the simplicity.

okay, that makes sense. i find the .pd files hard to read and i thought 
it makes more sense to store the patches in a more common format. but if 
this makes things more complicated, it's a stupid idea...

> On Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004, at 11:11 America/New_York, smoerk wrote:
> 
>> why not drop the old format and use something like XML?
>>
>> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I would need some input on extending the .pd format. I would also 
>>> like
>>> that some modifications get made to Pd to support extensibility. Here's
>>> the plan for now:






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