On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, guenter geiger wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
tiresome when creating a family of very related externals makes it more difficult to share code between related externals may take more RAM may take more filehandles
I understand that your point of view is gridflow centric, which is a completely different thing, because it introduces a new system on top of pd. Thats not what I would call pd externals in the standard sense. For the externals I am talking about the arguments don't hold.
Okay, my point of view is extremely gridflow centric, but the things I have listed also would hold for GEM, PDP, and so on, so generally it is also library-of-externals centric... those libraries introduce new subsystems on top of PD as well.
Therefore, arguments against small independent externals, when they come from a background in big systems of interrelated externals, are irrelevant, as your actual question was whether small independent externals are a good way of doing things from the perspective of small independent externals.
I would expect the paradigm of small independent externals to remain unchallenged, as long as all inappropriate answers are properly dismissed.
Have a nice day.
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