Well, newer patches with newer functionalities not working in older versions is how things go anyway, right? Vanilla 0-46 patches don't run in 0.45 and so on... there's no way around that I guess.

> the dual outlet layout with message left and

> signal right is rather unusual.

But I think it's also simpler and more straightforward than introducing flags, arguments and all. It might be unusual, but there are already some objects with similar design, I actually thought of that because of [sampstoms~] and [mstosamps~] - it'd be basically the same design.

cheers

2015-12-22 19:48 GMT-02:00 katja <katjavetter@gmail.com>:

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres
<porres@gmail.com> wrote:

> If we're discussing [average~], how about my idea of having a second right
> signal outlet as default? I think it's an easy and simple solution. Help
> file would explain how the left control outlet is for backwards
> compatibility. Done.

Yes that would be an easy way to incorporate Fred Jan's signal average
output into the existing class. But note that both solutions, dual
mode and dual outlet, have a similar forward incompatibility effect. A
patch that uses the right signal outlet of a new version won't run
with an old average~ binary. So the pros and cons of both solutions
are comparable, with the small difference that the dual outlet layout
with message left and signal right is rather unusual.

Katja