On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Chris McCormick wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:32:00PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: >>> The other bug is in t_tkcmd.c, because there Miller wrote in 656 >>> lines of >>> C what takes ~10 lines in pure Tcl, including trying to >>> preemptively parse >>> Tcl commands instead of asking Tcl to do it, and getting it wrong >>> whenever >>> braces are backslashed. >> >> I am curious as to whether you have ever discussed this with Miller, > > Perhaps, perhaps not, I don't remember and it does not matter. > >> or submitted a nice clean atomic patch to fix it and see if he >> accepts >> it into his version? > > You know that I haven't, you don't need to ask. I can't write nice > and clean patches anyway. > >> Is it in the bug tracker anywhere? > > I can't make my 6666 interdependent changes all into nice and clean > atomic patches. It would take forever. You haven't thought about > the logistics of it and then you think that it would really work. > The diff submission process doesn't upscale.
But you could submit some key ones, and they would be greatly appreciated additions to Pd. .hc > >> Or is the fix available in Desire Data for Miller to pull into his >> own version if he wants? > > Since when does Miller do that?... > >> Not criticising you at all, > > Oh, you could do it all you like. > >> just curious about whether we can make Pd development more >> constructive than it has been in the past. > > Then maybe you could look in the past and see what people said when > they were thinking about how to make Pd development more > constructive than it was in the past of that past. > >> It would be wonderful to see some of your hard work get into >> Miller's Pd > > Lol. > >> I know that you have been frustrated by this in the past, > > Yeah, but the past is the past, and nowadays I'm much more at peace > with the facts, and I just understand that you're going to be > frustrated in the future. > >> but my intentions are to have better software, not to annoy you. > > It's ok. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC > Canada_______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list