--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> > Subject: Re: [PD] ubuntu ppa's > To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <h...@at.or.at> > Cc: "PD list" <pd-list@iem.at>, "august" <aug...@alien.mur.at> > Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 6:26 PM > On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Hans-Christoph > Steiner wrote: > > > pd-arraysize > > There is no point in making tiny packages like that. In C, > the command for that is a one-liner. In Pd, it's also a one-liner: [expr size("myArray")]. Well, I guess it's a three-liner if you want the same functionality as [arraysize]: [loadbang] | [symbol myArray( | [expr size("$s1")] So what is the point of [arraysize] in the first place? Is the package there for compatibility for people who have already used [arraysize] without having known about [expr]? -Jonathan > Why would it have to be > not only accompanied by many lines of wrapper commands, but > also further lines of comments, its own file, license > headers, and then a freaking deb package ? > > Where are those packages : > glibc-printf > glibc-sprintf > glibc-fprintf > glibc-sin > glibc-cos > > Beyond a certain point, breaking things into little > packages is stupid. > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at > mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list