[PD] "new wrap incompatible object" error

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Tue Aug 17 22:37:12 CEST 2010


On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>> That's the idea of Pd-extended: a standard install.
>
> ... which still can be immensely different from machine to machine,  
> like by
> library updates or by changed start-up defaults (e.g. removal/ 
> addition of
> loaded libs) or by installing libraries not in pd-x (sssad, rj, ...)  
> etc.
>
> Pd-extended is a more powerful, but in fact less standardized  
> platform than
> Pd-vanilla w/o externals. It's in its nature.


That's not a really useful comparison.  GNU without X is really  
standardized, but if you want a GUI, then you get into GNOME, KDE,  
xfce, etc.

Try doing lots of list operations without list-abs on Pd-vanilla, or  
try doing OpenGL without Gem on Pd-vanilla.  Libraries are very useful  
things.

.hc


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