[PD] Getting the best out of the rewrite (was: Re: pow~, etc. in Pd-extended 0.42.5)

Ivica Ico Bukvic ico.bukvic at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 18:18:04 CET 2009


> I think its good to get to a point where we don't have to worry much
> about backwards compatibility.  IMHO, the easiest way to do that is
> embed library and other settings in each patch rather than having
> libraries loaded by default.   The pow~ issue highlights that.
> 
> You can also already use naming schemes like cyclone/prepend, iemlib/
> prepend, etc.
> 
> .hc

That however does not solve problems like help files not being found (at
least no here) and/or not knowing which one is being loaded by default (e.g.
scale object is by default from Gem lib, so when you load the maxlib version
and right-click on its help, you still get Gem lib one).

Ico





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