On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 19:10 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 00:51, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<h...@at.or.at> wrote:
As for packaging pd-arraysize together with other things, as far
as I
know, it is not Debian practice to lump together different upstream
projects into a single package, I don't think its a good idea here
either.
It is perfectly acceptable, although not common. If there are more pd
objects that are small, then just bundle them together.
I just happened to read on the pd-list, that [arraysize] is actually
obsolete, since this functionality is already built into both puredata
and pd-extended: [expr size("$s1")]
Personally, I don't see a point in supporting double functionality.
And
since this library doesn't do anything else, I'd actually prefer to
completely disregard it. I don't think that keeping it alive solely
for
the sake of not breaking existing patches with future Debian version
is
a good reason, especially since fixing those patches is so easy. In
this
case I value tidiness of the pd-lib space more than backward
compatibility. Better not adding it in the first place than removing
it
afterwards.
I'm interested to hear other opinions on this.
Roman
pd-arraysize is a special case, not an example of how to do things.
There are plenty of simple packages in Debian, like simple kernel
modules for a very specific device. In general packaging a single
simple object not a good idea, IMHO, but this one has a long legacy.
arraysize has many uses, and is still widely used by people in their
patches, I use it regularly. It is also widely used in many Pd docs.
And many people prefer the simple syntax of typing "arraysize" vs
"expr size($s1)". Additionally, expr is GPL and arraysize is public
domain, so some people will use arraysize for that reason (i.e. a
proprietary app based on Pd like rjdj).
.hc
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