[LAD] Re: ome Faust questions

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Triggered by a recent post, I've been dabbling a bit with Faust,
> and have some questions :-)
> 
> (For the jack-gtk architecture)
> 
> - When started the app prints some useless info (a nuisance) and
>  it also autoconnects (a definite no-go).
>  Is there any way to avoid this ?
> 
> - The faust2jack script says it adds 'preset' functionality
>  to the GUI. But there seems to be no way to access this.
> 
> - The way the PRESETDIR is handled is weird. It is done by 
>  prepending a single line temporary file to the merged cpp file
>  using cat.
> 
>  What would be wrong with
> 
>    # add preset management
>    if [ $PRESETDIR = "auto" ]; then
> 	PRESETDEFS=-DPRESETDIR=\"/var/tmp/\"
>    else	
> 	PRESETDEFS=-DPRESETDIR=\"$PRESETDIR\"
>    fi
> 
> and then adding PRESETDEFS to the compiler options ?

Sure, I guess this specific thing came by coping an already written « way of doing », lack of Unix culture, years of history…  

> 
> (General)
> 
> - The various faust2*** programs work by merging the compiled dsp
>  file with the architecture file. While doing this, also all
>  include files from the /usr/include/faust directory are recursively
>  expanded in-line. Now I wonder why this is done. Surely the C++
>  preprocessor would do this anyway ?
> 
> 

This -i option is there to produce a kind of « self-contained » Faust architecture (so only inlining the « faust/xxx » files). And possibly not really needed in this specific example : history, copy/paste…etc...

Stéphane, 
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