----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon Wise <[email protected]>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] arraysize WAS apt.puredata.info is back!
>
> On 29/09/12 00:57, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>> So if you think the debian repos are the first place to look, then you
> would agree
>
> they are the first place I look for a file I am missing, so if someone
> referred
> to [arraysize] I'd check if I have it available by:
>
> $ apt-file search arraysize.pd
> pd-arraysize: /usr/lib/pd/extra/arraysize/arraysize.pd_linux
> $
>
> then apt-get install pd-arraysize or apt-cache show pd-arraysize if I wanted
> to
> see a description or dependency info first.
>
>> that arraysize should tell the user they can get the same functionality
> with
>> expr which is already installed with pd-extended, pd-l2ork, and pd vanilla
> and
>> therefore more modular, right?
>
> yes .. that info is useful to include - perhaps in the arraysize help file,
> perhaps in the package description, and your expr example in help is the
> right
> one in that context. It is your suggestion that arraysize be deprecated that
> I
> do not like.
You're right, because it isn't superseded by a new feature, but rather by an old
one. There's probably not a term for that because the normal response is
"please
don't add bloat to the system".
-Jonathan
>
> Simon
>
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