[PD-dev] declare (again)

Antoine Rousseau antoine at metalu.net
Tue Sep 11 13:33:23 CEST 2018


Thanks!
I think we needed to realize fully the implications of the recent changes,
before imagining that it could be even simpler...

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Le mar. 11 sept. 2018 à 13:07, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Also, I like that this simple, yet elegant approach does not need to
> remove or override the explicit -path or -lib flags at all. I'm not sure
> why we didn't think of it when I wrote the initial PR a year ago.
>
> On Sep 11, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah. I find "you need to tell PD where to look" make sense, but adding
> "and HOW it needs to look" becomes the issue.
>
> On Sep 11, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Julian Brooks <jbeezez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1
> You only understand how non-intuitive current [declare] is once you've
> attempted to describe it simply to a roomful of learners.
> Not saying current situation isn't a huge improvement over where we were
> umpteen years ago but if there's the option to make it even simpler & more
> straightforward plus portable - yes please.
>
> J.
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 11:42, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually, that's not a bad idea at the expense of a little more
>> searching. [declare] then behaves more like the lua loader which searches
>> for both binary and script modules, which I find relatively easy to use. I
>> don't think this would break existing patches and would also honor the
>> relative path restrictions for self contained projects, where specifying a
>> relative path starting with ./ or ../ only searches locally.
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:42:00 +0200
>> From: Antoine Rousseau <antoine at metalu.net>
>> To: pd-dev <pd-dev at lists.iem.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] declare (again)
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>>
>> relatively easy code change
>>
>>
>> ...  so I propose step 2 as PR #440 !
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
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