On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Luke Iannini wrote:
And, the second answer is other-language (e.g. Python) style reorganization of libraries to be author-agnostic - ordered by functionality. But, this requires a Organization Czar, it seems, and maybe no one is ready to be that person yet, so, until then, such helper-objects must stay in the homes of their authors for there's nowhere else to put them. (also, I think in this case, since grid-operators in GF have the #-prefix, those objects without the prefix are clearly distinguished as "generic helpers")
They aren't necessarily generic helpers. For example, two of the three HPGL-handling classes don't start with "#" (nor with "gf.") and they don't anything that makes sense to a patch that doesn't deal with HPGL plotters. This is because it's easier to get stuff installed if I don't make a new library for each topic. Making separate libraries doesn't make my life any easier in any other aspect.
I don't know why this discussion gets moved to pd-list instead of pd-dev. Not particularly against it, but I don't see the point.
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