Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-14 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 08:31 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > > >I would love a proper way for Pd vanilla/core to load libraries > > >into abstractions. I know of [import]

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > >I would love a proper way for Pd vanilla/core to load libraries > >into abstractions. I know of [import] but most of my abstraction > >libraries target vanilla installs, too, s

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 12:26 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48:18AM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > Personally, I'd prefer to not auto-load anything at all, which would > > also encourage a nice patching style with explicitly loading the > > required libraries.

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Frank Barknecht wrote: I would love a proper way for Pd vanilla/core to load libraries into abstractions. I know of [import] but most of my abstraction libraries target vanilla installs, too, so I cannot use it. And

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:18 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:43:08PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > Last time I checked, [declare] indeed was working inside abstractions. > > Depends on what you call "working" ... > > Quoting the help file: > > WARNING: y

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Frank Barknecht wrote: I would love a proper way for Pd vanilla/core to load libraries into abstractions. I know of [import] but most of my abstraction libraries target vanilla installs, too, so I cannot use it. And [declare] currently is designed for top-level _main.pd-st

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:43:08PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > Last time I checked, [declare] indeed was working inside abstractions. Depends on what you call "working" ... Quoting the help file: WARNING: you might want to avoid putting "declare" statements inside abstractions, a

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 12:26 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48:18AM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > Personally, I'd prefer to not auto-load anything at all, which would > > also encourage a nice patching style with explicitly loading the > > required libraries.

Re: [PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48:18AM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > Personally, I'd prefer to not auto-load anything at all, which would > also encourage a nice patching style with explicitly loading the > required libraries. I'd be interested to hear what others think about > the matter. I wo

[PD] benevolent dictator? (was: 2d multiple preset interpolation?)

2010-07-13 Thread Roman Haefeli
Sorry for my random rant, but it seems purely illogical to me, that for instance maxlib is loaded on default, which seems to have no maintainer anymore, is buggy in some respects and creates name clashes, while iemmatrix, a clean library, which has an active maintainer with a well-established reput