[PD] ggee shell does not work in 0.52

[martin brinkmann]

On 27/01/2022 10:33, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
 > On 1/27/22 10:10, martin brinkmann wrote:
 >> thanks, i'll do that. i used [shell] basically for getting a random-seed
 >> (and filenames) via date, and it affects only a few patches,
 > if you need to read the date, you probably should use zexy's [date]
 > (resp [time]).
 > it works on all platforms, and is *much* faster than a call to an
 > external program.

i need the date-as-a-filename and seeding [random] only
when the patch is loaded, or when a file is saved,
so speed does not matter much.
platform independence would be nice though, and a 'vanilla'-solution 
even nicer...

 > if you want to generate a seed for your random number, you can use the
 > new built in [file] to read some bytes from /dev/random (from your usage
 > use [shell] together with date, i figure you already use a unix-like
 > system).

yes. and  i'll try that.

 > the randomness should be much better than just using some date-based
 > thingy.

and better randomness would be great. [random] feels a bit
more like a random walk, it looks like it tends to repeat recent
values. (i might be mistaken, i tend to see patterns in noise...)

bis denn!
	martin