[PD] hexloader WAS: Pd-extended 0.42.5 release candidate 3 released!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 19, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I am saying that each class should have a function called setup().   
>> That's how it works in Max/MSP.
>
> I know what you're saying. And I think that whatever it is in Max/ 
> MSP is informative, but it doesn't have to be like that. I don't  
> especially care what they actually do. Sometimes it's a good  
> inspiration, but you've got to have a better reason than "it's like  
> that in Max/MSP". I wouldn't actually even list it in a list of  
> reasons for doing something, except when making a compatibility  
> library.
>
> And then, as I just explained, there are many things that you just  
> can't achieve by considering that the only thing one would ever do  
> is install a new class.
>
> Some other examples are : the code that adds an inlet to the builtin  
> comment class. the code that adds extra menu items in the Help menu.  
> Iemguts modifying the savefn and propertiesfn of the canvas class.  
> etc.
>
>> I think that having a single function called setup() load multiple  
>> classes is not a good idea.
>
> Classes in other programming languages are rarely bundled as  
> separate files. In C and C++, it's usually one big .so file for a  
> large collection of classes. Even in Java, the paradise of class- 
> files, it didn't take long before people begged that the class-files  
> be joined together into a few big files, and that's how the JAR  
> format was born.


A JAR is a .zip file of a folder with individual .class files, one for  
each class.

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