[PD] opinions on the issue of concurrent implementations (was: getting sample rate of file loaded into an array)

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
> To: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
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> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 3:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] opinions on the issue of concurrent implementations (was: getting sample rate of file loaded into an array)
> 
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 13:16 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> [...]
>>  > Also, I wanted to know which is mature enough so that it's
>>  > worth to write bug reports to its author. This consumes quite some 
> time
>>  > and I think everyone who discovers that there are many solutions for 
> her
>>  > problem needs to invest some time to find out which works best.
>>  > Personally, I think this is lost time, because not only it needs twice
>>  > as much time to implement the same thing twice, every user needs to
>>  > figure out the small differences.
>>  > Well aware, that this (my) opinion is likely not applicable to others, 
> I
>>  > tend to think that patches are too much treated like holy cows whose
>>  > breaking should be avoided by any means. If it turns out, that my
>>  > patches use an inferior of concurrent implementations, I'd be 
> happy to
>>  > switch them to the new class, especially if it helps to keep the 
> future
>>  > clean.
>>   
>>  Advocate for the superior external, write crystal clear documentation
>>  for it, and write crystal clear documentation for the inferior one to 
> explain
>>  why to use the other one.  Then get the authors to accept your doc changes
>>  (or doc creation as the case may be).  That's the only way to ensure 
> that
>>  your lost time doesn't become other users' lost time.
> 
> You are right. I agree with you that this is probably the best (most
> pragmatic / most realistic) way to have an influence as a non-ext-dev on
> the issue.
> 
>>  I'll give you an example later when I update the arraysize help patch.
> 
> I'll happily check it, when it is ready.

Ok, I updated arraysize-help.pd in svn.

Still not sure how to get expr to point to the revised PDDP docs
instead of the old docs.

-Jonathan

> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> Roman
> 
> 
> 
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