Things are not moving to flatspace, that's from the "pd-externals"
package build system. Unfortunately, a couple devs have been
removing things from flatspace. It should be kept as is for
backwards compatibility.
You are right, all this stuff should be documented much better. It's
a matter of someone doing the work, I don't think anyone is opposed
to having more documentation. Part of the big drive for making Pd-
extended is to have a common platform of all this code. If you used
externals before the externals packages and Pd-extended, you'll
remember lots of pain related to that. Now that it's starting to
take shape, perhaps more people can contribute to making it better
documented, work smoother, etc.
.hc
On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:25 AM, David Powers wrote:
Perhaps it's a matter of missing documentation? I don't think, that discussing something on a mailing list counts as "documentation". There is a readme file that loads up when I install Pd-extended, I would expect such a file to tell me of the kind of changes that will totally break my work when I upgrade. Perhaps just a big BOLD notice telling users to check in flatspace folder for missing externals.
I guess I missed all this discussion you refer to, but if I read this list when I am in the middle of workday coding bad PHP or Ajax, I'm not so likely to remember some things. In fact, the only thing I knew about was counter, I had no idea about the random stuff and no recollection of ever seeing this discussion. I guess that's weird, maybe I'm getting old and forgetting everything... ;-)
I guess I didn't realize how much was moving to flatspace, the discussion made me think it was things I didn't really use and not a very large amount of externals. Now that I've looked in that folder I see what you are talking about!!!
Anyway in this case I rebuilt the externals as abstractions, which wasn't so hard. The randomF I posted was missing a loadbang though, so attached is the corrected one for posterity's sake...
~David
Anyway I missed a loadbang in my last patch, so here are the
~David
On 6/3/07, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
Hallo, David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote:
Second issue, which to me is perhaps a bigger problem: the utility externals seem to have disappeared from Gem with no warning.
IIRC the "warning" was kind of discussed several times on the Gem/Pd-related lists, but nevertheless: the MarkEx files have been moved out of Gem to their own "library" called "markex" in pd-extended. There they are also part of what's called "flatspace" in pd-extended-lingo.
Ciao
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