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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:45 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
>
>> now, that pd has its own [pow~], why not just using that? yeah, it  
>> takes
>> a bit more time to write the abstractions, but then they are more
>> vanilla friendly.
>
> But that's exactly why I brought this topic up and asked: What to do
> about pow~?
>
> Because of the reversed inlets you cannot use the buildin pow~ when
> importing Max-patches without breaking the patch.
>
> I think, the smartest thing would be to use the builtin pow~, but
> reverse the *connections* made to it. Because that's what I'd have  
> to do
> manually now after importing a Max patch with cyclone.
>
> An alternative would be to rename the pow~ in cyclone to something  
> like
> [max_pow~] or [Pow~] and use that instead when importing.

This breaks old patches that rely on cyclone's [pow~].  This is a  
problem that many people have addressed in languages like python,  
java, ruby, etc.  The solutions generally look very similar, from what  
I have seen, so I think we should learn from their experience.

The last major piece of the puzzle is making loaded binary objectclass  
names be in the canvas-local namespace, just like abstractions are  
now.  Unfortunately, that's not so easy to write.  But I think its the  
right thing to do.

.hc


> I suppose the connection-mangling is not trivial to write and as only
> this one object is affected, it may be easier to just do it manually
> when needed. The feature, that Pd now reports overwritten classes is
> very useful for spotting such differences.
>
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank
>
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