[PD] Alias an internal with an abstraction

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:

> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Alias an internal with an abstraction
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 10:21 AM
> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 09:40 +0100,
> Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 18:39 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > Thanks, but that doesn't help so much with with
> the max to pd conversion. If I made it an external, I would
> be able to use it to 
> > > replace the internal, right?
> > 
> > I _think_ that this is not possible with Pd <=
> current versions.
> 
> To correct myself: Since 0.42 or so there is way for
> externals to
> override internals.
> Personally I find it was wrong to implement this 'feature'
> without
> providing a mechanism for a patch to protect it from using
> externals
> that override internals. This really can make debugging
> hard and writing
> portable patches impossible.
> 
> IIRC, there is even a documented case on the list, where
> someone posted
> a patch, that was working only on some computers because a
> slight
> difference between Pd's [wrap] and zexy's [wrap] and only
> on *some*
> machines zexy was installed and did override Pd's internal
> [wrap].

Isn't this is a problem with the way libraries have loaded by 
default in Pd-ext (I think there's been a long thread about that but 
I haven't followed it)?  I don't know much about zexy's [wrap], but this 
seems a documentation issue rather than a bug-- whether it's at load 
time or in the docs, at some point zexy needs to say, "Greetings, 
gentleman.  All your [wrap] are belong to us."  Or maybe Pd needs to 
say "All my [wrap] are belong to zexy."

If I have a bunch of objects in folder "maxwise-abs," and I tell Pd 
to add that folder to the path, it is extremely likely (99%) that I want 
the abstraction to take precedence over the internal.  (Granted I 
currently only have one object in that folder but I just started...)

-Jonathan

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