On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> Ultimately, that sounds like a good goal, but it would also be a lot >> more work, and would cuase more bugs. There are incompatibilities >> between versions, not always large, but there. That means you'd then >> have to add code to manage that. Externals are a lot like linux >> kernel modules. > > Is it really that bad? I often don't recompile my externals when I > install a newer Pd version (and just for fun loaded maxlib 0.3, > compiled > Jul 8 2002 with the newest Pd, seems to work just fine). > > I know, some externals are dependent on a specific version, e.g. GUI > externals like knob or some that use "private" headers, and of course > some abstraction may require features not available in early versions. > But this may be possible to work around by requiring a minimum version > of Pd(-vanilla).
You are welcome to deal with it. I've done it enough. I have no interest in dealing with those issues, so how about we get the unified build working, then y'all can find out the joys of binary incompatibilies without me. :) .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
