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

Martin Peach martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Wed Feb 18 14:38:19 CET 2009


IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>
>>> they could, but it was an effort to do so.
>>> any "ordinary" external would not be able to do it.
>>
>> So am I understanding it correctly, that Zexy's [pack] is not doing
>> the fuddling Cyclone does and now suddenly became an object that
>> overwrites internals by changes in Pd 0.42?
> 
> 
> exactement!
> 
> because i didn't do any fudlling (well knowing that zexy's [pack] is not 
> ready to replace Pd's [pack]; but stating the intention to become so 
> LATER by using class_new("pack") - thinking that this was a safe thing 
> to do), i was shocked that suddenly my pack would be used instead of the 
> vanilla one.
> 

I guess it never occurred to any of you to use objects with different 
names...

Or else why not just call every pd object "object" and then use paths to 
access them, like [pd/some/library/subdirectory/object]?

Just kidding in a frustrated sort of way.

Martin





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