[PD] C++ for pd (was: mp3 playing external)

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> or rather, what are the big disadvantages of using flext ?
> i do not use it myself (since Gem has its own C++ framework and my rest 
> is done in C), so my ideas of flext might be clouded.
> the only reason to not use it that is see, is an additional dependency. 
> isn't it possible to link statically against flext, so the dependency 
> would only exist at compile time ?
> or is the flext-api highly unstable (so that it is a pain to upgrade 
> from one version of flext to the next ?)

Being the author of some flext externals myself I'd say, that using
flext can be a disadvantage for users trying to compile the externals.
However the advantages in using flext for me as developer outweight
that, IMO. It is really well documented, very clean, has lots of
useful utility functions and I need to use flext anyways for Thomas'
cool externals, so flext is already installed. 

And I like libraries and code reuse in general, so why should there be
a different C++ interface for externals in Gem, PDcontainers,
readanysf~, creb, ...?

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__