Sorry to further complicate this -
I'm now trying to design a multipurpose object "array" for pd vanilla that would allow one to say [array size] and use "table" or "data structure" arrays intercahngeably.
I think though, that rather than marking arraysize as "obsolete" one could simply note that it has an equivalent available in Pd vanilla - that need carry no value judgement as to whether people should be using vanilla or extended.
cheers M
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:03 PM Subject: arraysize WAS apt.puredata.info is back!
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If someone wants to write patches that work on vanilla anywhere,
    then there is a point.
_Everybody_ wants to write patches that work on vanilla everywhere.
When we can't we try to figure out a course of action, but when we can (without employing wild hacks) we should.
If people are already using Pd-extended or
    Debian then I honestly don't see the point, arraysize is already     there, like many other externals.
It's like you wrote above. People _do_ want patches to be as cross-platform as possible. (Not if.)
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. :-)
If it were a wild hack I'd agree, but it's not. It is a standard operator for [expr] that's been there for ages and is clearly documented.
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...)
-Jonathan
.hc
On 09/27/2012 03:00 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
That feature comes at the expense of compatibility, which normally wouldn't be an issue _except_ that Pd Vanilla already has the same functionality. So let's
      encourage
use of the more compatible way using [expr], which is clearly documented and supports the _exact_ same features as arraysize.
-Jonathan
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce] apt.puredata.info is
      back!
IMHO, arraysize is very useful because it has a memorable
      name. "I
need to find the size of an array... oh, [arraysize]".
.hc
On 09/27/2012 02:13 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Please change the description for the package "pd-arraysize"
"This object is deprecated. Use [expr
      size("array-name")]
which works out of the box for Pd Extended, Pd
      Vanilla,
and Pd-l2ork."
-Jonathan
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> last night hans and me finally setup a
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