On 2010-04-21 13:30, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: > Roman Haefeli escribió: > >> Do _not_ start to use the OSCx externals, since they are buggy and >> unmaintained. Use the OSC and net objects from mrpeach instead (packOSC, >> unpackOSC, routeOSC, udpsend, udpreceive etc). The OSCx externals are >> still there only for legacy reasons. > > Ok thanks for warning. I will _not_ use them. > > If a library or external that is obsolete or deprecated is included in > Pd-External, there should be a way for the user to know that. > I guess it has already been said a few times in the list, but when you > browse the extra folder (or the help browser) and you find an external > you don't usually do a search in the list archives to see if it is > deprecated... > > A way could be to include help-patches (which are missing right now) and > put a comment that read "DEPRECATED" in each of them. >
another way could be to _not_ include help-patches, so people don't learn how to use them :-) anyhow, i have now added a "deprecated" line to these objects, so whenever you create one of them, you will get a warning. i thought i already did that once, but probably only in my dreams. fgmasdr IOhannes
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