On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It's nice to add those features, but by adding them to the pd-vanilla
objects, that means patches written in desiredata are not compatible with
pd-vanilla.
No, pd-vanilla loads them fine, the patches are compatible. It's just
about bugs that you don't consider to be bugs. A bug is a bug is a bug,
and I consider the compatibility issue with bugs to be moot, because the
bug is the fault of the software that has the bug in it, it's not the
fault of the rest of the planet.
It's Pd's fault for both looking like it supports spaces in symbols using
backslashes and then not supporting them properly. I don't care about your
sustained bias in favour of Miller's bugs as if they were features to be
supported.
It seems a better solution would be to add new desiredata objects, then keep
the iemguis compatible.
It makes patches even less compatible because then *any* patches using the
new objects are not compatible at all, and people have to choose between
old vs new objects. Aren't you tired of choosing between floatatom and
[nbx] ? why shouldn't everybody else be tired of it already? You want more
of that crap? You want 10 times more of that crap, for all iemguis?
It's not the first time you suggest things like that. I will not provide
new object classes when I can extend existing ones in "logical" ways. I
understand what is the Liskov substitution principle and I apply it to the
evolution of classes across versions. Either you don't understand it or
you spit on it, and either way, I can't approve you.
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