On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:35 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:

> Issues I can recall from last time I looked at his code-

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> the big one - it's a new way of doing the whole socket/sewrial/midi/ 
> file thing and so involves people spending the effort to learn it  
> and dump the old code and habits.

I think "dump the old code" is the crux of the issue here. The  
problem isn't so much that it's a new way of doing things as that it  
can't co-exist with the old way of doing things. This means that  
switching to Flow can't be done gradually, and so any package  
maintainer that moves his package to use Flow instantly makes himself  
incompatible with all other packages that use files, sockets, streams  
etc.

Colin