[PD-dev] PD patches in XML

[Johannes M Zmoelnig]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> 
> 
>>I find it hard to give up the basic Pd principle that everything may
>>be controlled with messages.  I wonder, if there is any real technical
>>reason for abandoning message-based handling of object state
>>(including visual properties, IDs, whatever), apart from the
>>shortcomings of the current Pd type system -- mainly, the lack of a
>>string type?
> 
> 
> Exactly. This is what I should have said when I asked the question "Why?".
> 

i think we are not talking about replacing the pd-format with an 
XML-format (we can talk about this later)

but i think that there is a need for a human-readable file-format (which 
could be an addition, either built-in or as an external)


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