[PD-dev] pow~ in Cyclone [was: Re: stripping down Pd-extended's default libs]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Matt Barber hat gesagt: // Matt Barber wrote:
>
>> At least we know it was an intentional difference:
>>
>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-04/061603.html
>>
>> For extended would it be possible to exclude cyclone pow~ from the
>> library, or less drastically patch both cyclone and vanilla pow~ to
>> throw a warning, as was discussed last april?
>
> This is not related to Pd-extended which AFAIK doesn't include cyclone
> as a library (a "-lib" loadable one), but when loaded as a lib,  
> Cyclone
> does some magic to even overwrite Pd internals. I made a little check
> now and actually Cyclone then is very smart and aliasses the  
> builtins to
> different names.

Cyclone in pd-extended is just a libdir library of Max/MSP compatible  
objectclasses.  When cyclone is built as one big library in one file,  
then there are some extra Max/MSP compatibility features.  If someone  
added the cyclone.pd_linux creation to the Pd-extended build system,  
then this would also be included.

Getting rid of cyclone's pow~ would break all of the patches that rely  
on cyclone's pow~, and would also make it harder to import Max/MSP  
patches.  Removing it is not a solution.

.hc

> Running "pd-0.42 -lib cyclone" gives this:
>
> ...
> warning: class 'pow~' overwritten; old one renamed 'pow~_aliased'
> ...
>
> and now the [pow~] behaves like in Max, while [pow~_aliased] is the  
> new
> pow~ from 0.42. That's pretty cool, actually.
>
> Unfortunatly you cannot use the other cyclone objects without  
> rewriting
> [pow~] when cyclone is loaded as a library.
>
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank
>
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