[PD] pow~, etc. in Pd-extended 0.42.5

[Mike Moser-Booth]

While I like the idea of backward compatibility, I would prefer more 
cross compatibility. If Pd-extended continues to default to cyclone's 
[pow~], there will still be issues with compatibility between different 
versions of Pd in the future and the [pow~] problem will persist. While 
old patches may experience problems, future patches won't. Better to 
take care of it now than later.

I don't know how annoying it would be, as I don't use it that often 
anyway (I usually stick something like that in [expr~]) but what if a 
little warning message showed up in the Pd window when a patch loads 
with [pow~], at least in the next release or two? I think that would 
just help people catch it quicker.

.mmb

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> If that is true, there could be a lot of patches out there that use 
> [pow~] as cyclone's pow~ and would need to be changed.  Therefore we'd 
> need to make some kind of way to alert people which one they are using 
> and the differences between them.  The SVN is pretty clean, there is 
> only one patch in there that uses [pow~]: (nusmuk/distortion.pd)
>
> The vanilla pow~ does make more sense, IMHO.  I think the biggest 
> concern is minimizing breakage and helping people avoid annoying bugs.
>
> .hc
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:40 PM, hard off wrote:
>
>> i think you have to look at which method would benefit the greatest 
>> amount of people.  so, i think you'll find that far more people will 
>> benefit from proper vanilla compatibility straight out of the box, 
>> than will benefit from the cyclone library.
>>
>>
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