On May 4, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> The idea is to strip down Pd to the most basic objects, then make >> everything else a library that's included when needed. [import] and/ >> or [declare] seem to be some of the essential few. > > I wonder: How should we deal with the thousands of abstractions that > have been created in the ten years since Pd was invented? To avoid > having to rewrite every patch, some kind of central path preference > mechanism still will be necessary, I guess.
I don't think anyone is proposing to remove the startup flags/ preferences like "path". For the situation that you describe, it would be easy enough to collect those abstractions into a folder, then add that folder to the path when you need it. [declare] and [classpath] allow you to do that in the patch itself. .hc > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
