[PD-dev] Pd 0.42-0 test 6 available

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>>> speaking of adding things to the Pd API...
>>>> is it totally out of your ways to
>>>> - add a function that returns the version of Pd?
>>>> something like "const char* pd_versionstring(void)" would be nice.
>>>> this could be used to ensure that an external is running with a Pd
>>>> version compatible to the one it was compiled against
>>>
>>> Since the version will most likely be used for a numeric  
>>> comparison, and
>>> it is stored as a number, perhaps it makes sense to return  
>>> numeric types
>>> instead of a char*?
>>>
>>> int pd_majorversion(void)
>>> int pd_minorversion(void)
>>> int pd_bugfixversion(void)
>>
>>
>> personally i don't care so much for the details.
>> i proposed the string as it outputs the full version number (with all
>> "test" and whatnot).
>
> Why not add 4 global variables
>
> EXTERN t_int pd_majorversion;
> EXTERN t_int pd_minorversion;
> EXTERN t_int pd_bugfixversion;
> EXTERN t_symbol pd_testversion;
>
> ...to m_pd.h, which would be initialized when pd starts up from the  
> #defines
> PD_MAJOR_VERSION,  PD_MINOR_VERSION, PD_BUGFIX_VERSION and  
> PD_TEST_VERSION?
>
> Or make it a struct:
>
> typedef struct
> {
>   t_int       major_version;
>   t_int       minor_version;
>   t_int       bugfix_version;
>   t_symbol test_version;
> } t_pd_version;
> EXTERN t_pd_version pd_version;

I like both of these ideas.

.hc



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