[PD] libpd separating gui from core

[Miller Puckette]

HI all -

My figure was 100K lines, not 10K.  PD's C code is at about 70K now, and the
Tcl/TK code is 7K - so I am only adding expansions very carefully now.

Another related idea with an absurdly arbitrary round number attached: the code is 
built to last 50 years.  It's now about 17 ywars in (1/3 of its intended lifetime.)

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:26:43PM -0500, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
> What I have been doing is solidifying core features to get a better idea of
> what the source should look like. Separating anything beforehand will
> result in s lot of problems/busywork later. I would also not deceive myself
> that 10K lines is enough. Pd-extended is way above that when you include
> 3rs party externals. Ditto for pd-l2ork.
> On Feb 26, 2014 6:10 PM, "Peter Brinkmann" <peter.brinkmann at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> The reason why I believe combining all of these will not be feasible is
> >> because in one of my recent conversations with Miller (and Miller please
> >> correct me if I somehow misremember here) he expressed his belief any
> >> project that exceeds N lines of code which I believe in this case it was
> >> something like 10000, it becomes unmaintainable and dies.
> >>
> > That's why separating the GUI from the audio engine is so important. I
> > sort of agree that 10000 lines of irreducible GUI+audio code would probably
> > be unmaintainable. On the other hand, 5000 lines of audio code plus 5000
> > lines of GUI code, communicating through a smallish, well-defined
> > interface, wouldn't be a problem at all.
> >
> >

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