[PD] LibXtract for Pd?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Hi Jamie, would you consider having LibXtract available in the new Deken
plugin?

That'd be great :)

2015-07-15 9:21 GMT-03:00 James Bullock <James.Bullock at bcu.ac.uk>:

>  Hi,
>
> On 15 July 2015 at 11:57:17, katja (katjavetter at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>  Hi Jamie,
>
> Thanks for your response. I cloned the repo to see the history, and
> noticed a tendency of simplification: FFTW replaced by Ooura,
> autotools build system replaced by makefiles. Nice! In fact the whole
> library looks much simpler than one would expect for the given
> functionality. Even the Pd and MaxMSP wrappers were amazingly small
> and simple files.
>
>
>  Thanks. It’s good to know my attempts to “keep it simple” are
> appreciated :)
>
>    For a library so systematic as LibXtract it makes sense to avoid
> wrapper code duplication. But will the extra complexity and overhead
> of Flext be justified in the case of these two wrapper externals plus
> corresponding makefiles?
>
>  Do you mean runtime overhead or maintenance overhead? I’ve never set out
> to measure the runtime overhead of Flext, but my impression is that it’s
> insignificant and certainly I’ve never noticed it. But if there is evidence
> suggesting otherwise, I’d be interested to know about it.
>
> In terms of maintenance / build complexity, since commit 73bd8015 Flext is
> greatly simplified (through the use of C++ templates), requiring only a
> single header include; no more building and link static libraries! This
> means to support a flext external only two steps are needed: 1. add the
> Flext repository as a git submodule, 2. include flext.h
>
>  If the build system is your main concern,
> there may be a way to use a helper makefile like this for the Pd
> external and adapt (arguments for) it to build the MaxMSP version:
> https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder.
>
>  I guess my concern is that I’m planning to move _all_ of my externals
> over to Flext so I only have one API to think about. I would therefore need
> a compelling reason to make an exception.
>
> BTW, I’m planning to support a wider range of F0 detection methods,
> including at some point your own Helmholtz algorithm.
>
> best,
>
> Jamie
>
>
>
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