[PD] data structures......

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 05:26:21 CET 2014


don't even remember cause I stopped messing with it because of them, but I
did discuss about them sometime ago here on the list, with joão pais, the
bottom line is that they were indeed buggy like that and that you had to
cope with it.

cheers

2014-11-17 2:50 GMT-02:00 Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>:

>  On 11/16/2014 10:55 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>
> my two cents is that the data structures are still a bit buggy to work on.
> Just hoped they'd be more stable, other than that, can't relate to the
> commotion, cheers
>
>
> What kinds of bugs are you running into?
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
> 2014-11-13 13:45 GMT-02:00 Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <
> pd-list at lists.iem.at>:
>
>>  It's certainly possible.  There's a Pd-l2ork script for creating a
>> "vanilla" tarball with the l2ork changes in it, so I guess you could try
>> dropping the src and extra from that into libpd's pure-data directory and
>> see what happens.
>>
>>  But I don't know much about libpd.
>>
>>  -Jonathan
>>
>>
>>    On Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:38 AM, i go bananas <
>> hard.off at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   in relation to Pd-l2ork,
>>
>>  guys, what's the status of having a 'libpd' for l2ork???  is that
>> possible?
>>
>>  sorry for going off topic...but it is something i have wanted to ask
>> for ages.
>>
>>  On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:33 PM, i go bananas <hard.off at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> IOhannes,
>>
>>  that's kinda what i thought....
>>
>>  but really, come on...pd's interface is it's weakest point.  When
>> miller started working on the data structures, libpd and all that didn't
>> even exist.  But now, we can just farm out that sort of stuff to other
>> programs.
>>
>> Compared to the amount of effort it takes to learn them, and how
>> effective they actually are, data structures are just too un-economical.
>>
>>  in nearly 15 years of their existence, i think i can still count on
>> both hands how many good implementations of them i have seen.
>>
>> look, i LOVE pd and couldn't live without it....but it just seems like
>> any minute spent on data structures is a minute that could be way better
>> spent on other stuff.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:54 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 11/12/2014 03:33 PM, i go bananas wrote:
>> >
>> > couldn't that work be put to better use?
>> >
>>
>> depends on your definition of "better".
>>
>> if i understand correctly, "data structures" have been _the_ motivation
>> for writing Pd (as opposed to continue with max), so i think we owe them
>> :-)
>>
>> gfmrdsa
>> IOhannes
>>
>>
>>
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