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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: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [PD] arraysize WAS apt.puredata.info is back!
On 29/09/12 00:57, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
So if you think the debian repos are the first place to look, then you
would agree
they are the first place I look for a file I am missing, so if someone referred to [arraysize] I'd check if I have it available by:
$ apt-file search arraysize.pd pd-arraysize: /usr/lib/pd/extra/arraysize/arraysize.pd_linux $
then apt-get install pd-arraysize or apt-cache show pd-arraysize if I wanted to see a description or dependency info first.
that arraysize should tell the user they can get the same functionality
with
expr which is already installed with pd-extended, pd-l2ork, and pd vanilla
and
therefore more modular, right?
yes .. that info is useful to include - perhaps in the arraysize help file, perhaps in the package description, and your expr example in help is the right one in that context. It is your suggestion that arraysize be deprecated that I do not like.
You're right, because it isn't superseded by a new feature, but rather by an old one. There's probably not a term for that because the normal response is "please don't add bloat to the system".
-Jonathan
Simon