[PD] ubuntu ppa's

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 5, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> --- On Fri, 11/5/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
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>> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] ubuntu ppa's
>> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>
>> Cc: "PD list" <pd-list at iem.at>, "august" <august at alien.mur.at>
>> Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 6:26 PM
>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Hans-Christoph
>> Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> pd-arraysize
>>
>> There is no point in making tiny packages like that. In C,
>> the command for that is a one-liner.
>
> In Pd, it's also a one-liner: [expr size("myArray")].  Well, I guess
> it's a three-liner if you want the same functionality as [arraysize]:
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> [loadbang]
> |
> [symbol myArray(
> |
> [expr size("$s1")]
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> So what is the point of [arraysize] in the first place?  Is the  
> package
> there for compatibility for people who have already used [arraysize]
> without having known about [expr]?

yup, its all about compatibility with how people have used it.

.hc

>
> -Jonathan
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>> Why would it have to be
>> not only accompanied by many lines of wrapper commands, but
>> also further lines of comments, its own file, license
>> headers, and then a freaking deb package ?
>>
>> Where are those packages :
>>  glibc-printf
>>  glibc-sprintf
>>  glibc-fprintf
>>  glibc-sin
>>  glibc-cos
>>
>> Beyond a certain point, breaking things into little
>> packages is stupid.
>>
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