On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:05:01 +0200 (CEST), zmoelnig@iem.at said:
Zitiere Mathieu Bouchard matju@sympatico.ca:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Tjeerd Sietsma wrote:
I'm curious what the specifications of the PD file format look like. Puckette has already posted *something* in 2001 about the connect
rules,
and stated that the rest of the specs are undocumented. Is there
someone
who has figured out already what the rest of the fileformat means? Of course it looks quite simple, but I want to make sure there are
no
mistakes from my side.
of course the file-format is quite simplistic. the problem is (i guess), that miller refuses to document some things because of one reason (correct me if i am wrong): as soon as they are documented people can rely on there behaviour and thus things are kind of frozen. undocumented things are "likely to change" in the near future, the far future or never...
Not maintaining backward-compatibility is no reason for not documenting a file format. I assume Miller Puckette rather spends his time programming/ doing his gig instead of writing documentation for the programs he wrote. Not only the fileformat is undocumented, but a some objects aren't docu- mented also. Fortunately the fileformat isn't too complicated, but it would be nicer if one could download the necessary docs somewhere.