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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 1:04 PM, András Murányi wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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> 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.
>
> Sounds good to me.
> If we want to have backwards-compatibility AND to change things in a  
> tabula-rasa way, we could establish a new "file type" (perhaps just  
> a new filename extension eg.: .pd2) and then .pd files would be  
> parsed with the old logic and .pd2 files with the brand new logic.  
> Dunno if it actually makes sense, it just came to my mind now.


That could work.  That's how Max/MSP handles it.  Here's their  
extensions in rough order of introduction:
.pat
.mxt
.mxb
.help
.mxo
.maxpat
.maxhelp

That seems excessive to me tho.  I think I'm missing some even.

.hc

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