[PD] [PD-announce] introducing [tracecall] !

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Mon Jul 16 10:57:53 CEST 2007


On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:41:13PM -0400, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:18:05PM +0200, Derek Holzer wrote:
> > This is fairly esoteric to me. Could you give a "real world" example of 
> > what such an object would be used for? What need does it fulfill in your 
> > own patching strategies? Why did you make it?
> 
> I can't answer for matju, but it seems like this would be useful for
> making sure your signal paths are connected and data is flowing in the
> way that you expect. This should be obvious by reading the patch, but
> in a very complicated patch it could be quicker to check with tracecall.
> I think it would make it easier to fix bugs.

Whoops. "message paths" not "signal paths".

Chris.

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