Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Classname prefixes like "list-", "gem_", "cxc_", etc. are deprecated and ugly in my opinion. Can we all agree on that at least?
Hans, I agree that it is your opinion.
Not quite yet.
More like: never.
But as soon as your libdir-patch is in main Pd, I would agree.
Why?
See my other mail for my reasoning. I wouldn't deprecate class-/filename prefixes or call them more ugly than directory prefixes, but in general I don't care how prefixes are implemented or used. My problem is with abstractions not being completely prepared for directory prefixes in main Pd because of help-path issues. Basically that's why I dropped the idea to use a directory prefix for rradical two years ago, the remains are here: http://footils.org/cms/show/22
However once the help-file issue is sorted out, using directories makes installing and moving and deleting collections of externals and abstractions much easier. You don't want list-abs? Just delete the directory. You have your own "list/*" collection? Just rename mine to "list-foobar" and use "list-foobar/drip". From a maintainer's point of view directories have a lot of advantages. But they are nothing special when it comes to resolving name clashes, because as I see it they don't do much that wouldn't be possible with file- or classname prefixes as well.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__