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authorBryan Jurish <mukau@users.sourceforge.net>2004-09-14 17:34:41 +0000
committerBryan Jurish <mukau@users.sourceforge.net>2004-09-14 17:34:41 +0000
commit8728eaeaeaefa9c62455a7c092a5f88640b320fa (patch)
tree6a061593e7ad325d5cd0bdf7d0a491f277addc77 /externals/sprinkler/README.pod
parent4b7cd524179604571f149053d0dd353b4b3ea096 (diff)
v0.06 Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:50:03 +0200
+ added --enable-all-forwardmess configure option to use pd_forwardmess() for all messages (even those of length 1) : should fix 'bang' problem + fixed gcc-3.3 warning re: (++argv) in sprinkler_list() thanks to Erasmus Zipfel svn path=/trunk/; revision=2031
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diff --git a/externals/sprinkler/README.pod b/externals/sprinkler/README.pod
index 172458e9..301aa498 100644
--- a/externals/sprinkler/README.pod
+++ b/externals/sprinkler/README.pod
@@ -25,17 +25,29 @@ The 'configure' script supports the following options, among others:
=over 4
-=item * --enable-debug , --disable-debug
+=item --enable-debug , --disable-debug
Whether to enable verbose debugging messages.
Default=no.
-=item * --enable-forward , --disable-forward
+=item --enable-forward , --disable-forward
Whether to create [forward] objects as instances
of the [sprinkler] class (MAX-incompatible).
Default=no.
+=item --enable-all-forwardmess , --disable-all-forwardmess
+
+Whether to use pd_forwardmess() for all messages. If this
+option is disabled (the default), messages of length 1 will
+be handled specially; thus a symbol 'foo' will be passed as
+'symbol foo', rather than just 'foo'.
+
+Default=no.
+
+Future versions of 'sprinkler' may use pd_forwardmess() for
+all messages by default -- go on, try it!
+
=back
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
@@ -48,6 +60,8 @@ from code by Guenter Geiger, Larry Troxler, and iohannes m zmoeling.
Thanks to Krzysztof Czaja for pointing out to me the existence of MAX "forward",
and to Miller Puckette for the name "sprinkler".
+Thanks to Erasmus Zipfel for a bugreport and useful ideas.
+
=head1 KNOWN BUGS
One of the acknowledgements used to be in this section.
@@ -55,6 +69,8 @@ Sorry, folks.
Backwards-compatible version is incompatible with MAX.
+Semantic strangeness with singleton messages is somewhat cryptic.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Bryan Jurish E<lt>moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.deE<gt>