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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Feb 23 00:43:31 CET 2009


On Feb 20, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Martin Peach hat gesagt: // Martin Peach wrote:
>
>> I suggest that the first object to use the name 'owns' the name and  
>> any
>> subsequently invented objects use different names.
>
> I think, that's good for external and abstraction libraries (in the
> repository), but Pd builtins should be free to use any name they want
> (within reason) and not be forced to scan every available collection  
> of
> externals or abstractions if a name is taken. That's just not
> practical, especially not for abstractions (of which I have  
> thousands on my
> disk, most of them local to a project of course)


This just doesn't sound workable to me.  Then you can never rely on an  
externals or even abstractions, since they might be an incompatible  
internal that comes along and overrides them.  The idea here is to  
make it possible to use objectclasses that are not included in Pd  
without having to worry about our patches breaking.

.hc

>
>
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank
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