[PD] pd double precision

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em sex., 26 de nov. de 2021 às 10:50, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
escreveu:

> @Lucarda Thanks for the link!
>
> There is some more discussion in the linked issue:
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/900
>
> @porres As you can see, there are practical problems which need to be
> solved before making it official.
>

I don't really get what is the issue though. As I see it, one can already
build FAT externals if they want to. The fact that none (or very few)
libraries are available or will be shouldn't be an actual concern as well,
as I consider that this is a third party issue. If Pd Vanilla nicely fully
runs in double precision, that should grant its release as a package binary
out there so people can start fiddling with it, even though they're not
using externals.

What I consider more proper is updating the documentation to tell the
difference and also different behaviour of a particular object (specially
array objects like [tabread4~]), but that can easily be done and I can take
care of that.

I mean, Pd-ceammc has already been shipping itself with double precision
binaries and I understand they're just using vanilla's core, no code
changes.

Discussions on new strategies to build external libraries can happen later
and for a next release. And will probably get more traction once the double
precision beast is out of the cage.

What am I missing? What doesn't make sense here?

cheers

>
> Anyway, I think it's a good idea to start discussing this again *after*
> Pd 0.52 has been released as there are still enough issues that need our
> attention :-)
>
> Christof
>
> On 26.11.2021 13:04, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
> >
> > On 11/26/2021 8:48 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> >> Can you pinpoint the issue? what do we have to decide on externals?
> >>
> >> ceammc already offers a double precision download for vanilla, I
> >> would also like to start providing my externals for that too
> >> (cyclone/ELSE).
> >>
> >> What do I need to do?
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >
> > https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/902
> >
> >
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> >
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