Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
[a2l] part of zexy-2.1 (Aug 5 2005) Copyright (l) IOhannes m zmölnig, forum::für::umläute, IEM 1999-2005
i admit that i am not really willing to give up the individual splash-screens for each external to be loaded. (this is partly due to the way i read the GPL; but it is likely that i will stay stubborn even if you can prove that i am misunderstanding the GPL)
Personally I will just edit the verbosity out anyway in my version of Zexy. But maybe it's a more general problem: Zexy is one of the bigger libraries, and it alone produces 337 lines of output on startup (yes, I counted). But other externals also send their messages along on load (mine do, too) so with a growing number of externals the startup message overload will be even bigger. I'm not really sure, what to do about this, but it can get annoying, don't you think?
I would prefer that all this output go into a log file e.g. 'pd_log.txt' that would be overwritten each time pd runs. This way if something goes wrong there will be lots of evidence to sift through even if the terminal window disappeared or its contents scrolled out of the buffer, and if nothing is amiss the user need not worry about the drive filling up with timestamped logfiles.
Martin