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From: Simon Wise simonzwise@gmail.com To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [PD] arraysize WAS apt.puredata.info is back!
On 28/09/12 11:38, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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From: Simon Wisesimonzwise@gmail.com
And who is this mythical user that looks to the Debian
repositories
to figure out how to do something in a programming language? (Hm, I'm not getting audio output, let's open up Synaptic
and
search
20,000 mostly non-related packages for a solution...)
they are at all not mythical, though not as numerous as those using
apple,
windows or a pre-assembled linux distribution.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm referring to what Hans wrote:
For me, apt-get install pd-arraysize is far easier than trying to
remember that [expr] trick. And thankfully we can write externals, so we can have choice. :-)
exactly ...
Not exactly-- you were referring to using the Debian packaging system in a general sense to find packages, and you were saying that calling someone who uses it a mythical user is not inaccurate. But that's not what I wrote-- I'm referring to using the Debian packaging system to figure out how to solve a specific problem in the programming language, and that's not what the packaging system is for.
Anyway, it's easier to not install something than it is to install something. And it's a false choice between installing an external and memorizing the help patch for expr. But I think Hans is making that false choice because my revision of expr-help.pd, which has a comprehensive list of the expr operators, doesn't come up when you right-click expr.
Hans: what do I need to do to get the PDDP help patchs for the expr family to show up on right-clicking "Help"?
-Jonathan
certainly not the typical pd user, but also certainly not a mythical
one either,
and since the work done for such a package is by one or other such user
then
that seems very reasonable to me.
Simon
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