----- Original Message ----- > From: Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com> > To: "pd-list@iem.at" <pd-list@iem.at> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 3:15 AM > Subject: Re: [PD] opinions on the issue of concurrent implementations (was: > getting sample rate of file loaded into an array) > > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 13:16 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > [...] >> > Also, I wanted to know which is mature enough so that it's >> > worth to write bug reports to its author. This consumes quite some > time >> > and I think everyone who discovers that there are many solutions for > her >> > problem needs to invest some time to find out which works best. >> > Personally, I think this is lost time, because not only it needs twice >> > as much time to implement the same thing twice, every user needs to >> > figure out the small differences. >> > Well aware, that this (my) opinion is likely not applicable to others, > I >> > tend to think that patches are too much treated like holy cows whose >> > breaking should be avoided by any means. If it turns out, that my >> > patches use an inferior of concurrent implementations, I'd be > happy to >> > switch them to the new class, especially if it helps to keep the > future >> > clean. >> >> Advocate for the superior external, write crystal clear documentation >> for it, and write crystal clear documentation for the inferior one to > explain >> why to use the other one. Then get the authors to accept your doc changes >> (or doc creation as the case may be). That's the only way to ensure > that >> your lost time doesn't become other users' lost time. > > You are right. I agree with you that this is probably the best (most > pragmatic / most realistic) way to have an influence as a non-ext-dev on > the issue. > >> I'll give you an example later when I update the arraysize help patch. > > I'll happily check it, when it is ready.
Ok, I updated arraysize-help.pd in svn. Still not sure how to get expr to point to the revised PDDP docs instead of the old docs. -Jonathan > > Thanks for your thoughts. > Roman > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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