While I like the idea of backward compatibility, I would prefer more
cross compatibility. If Pd-extended continues to default to cyclone's
[pow~], there will still be issues with compatibility between different
versions of Pd in the future and the [pow~] problem will persist. While
old patches may experience problems, future patches won't. Better to
take care of it now than later.
I don't know how annoying it would be, as I don't use it that often
anyway (I usually stick something like that in [expr~]) but what if a
little warning message showed up in the Pd window when a patch loads
with [pow~], at least in the next release or two? I think that would
just help people catch it quicker.
.mmb
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
If that is true, there could be a lot of patches out there that use
[pow~] as cyclone's pow~ and would need to be changed. Therefore we'd
need to make some kind of way to alert people which one they are using
and the differences between them. The SVN is pretty clean, there is
only one patch in there that uses [pow~]: (nusmuk/distortion.pd)
The vanilla pow~ does make more sense, IMHO. I think the biggest
concern is minimizing breakage and helping people avoid annoying bugs.
.hc
On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:40 PM, hard off wrote:
i think you have to look at which method would benefit the greatest
amount of people. so, i think you'll find that far more people will
benefit from proper vanilla compatibility straight out of the box,
than will benefit from the cyclone library.
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