Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
I think that the most important thing Pd needs at the moment is to get away from sedimentary programming (that is, deposit more code on top of the existing code) and metamorphic programming (applying intense peer pressure on the sediment makes it harder), if you excuse my mineralogy metaphors...
That's why we started getting into automatic testing (re: the last talk at pd convention)
I think that is true not only for code, but also for patches. starting with a clear idea of what patches and parts of patches/modules/externals should do and providing test cases makes patches and even parts of them more useful for the public. atm automatic testing is still very complicated to do (at least I would not know how to write it). but testing could also be "manual". I really like the idea to start patching with a help patch where the object inlets and outlets and functions/features are defined before starting with the external itself. maybe that also would make patches more shareable... marius.