[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

> IOhannes m zmoelnig schrieb:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> I think iemmatrix needs some work, since it has a number of  
>>> aliases,  and aliases currently aren't supported.  I am a little  
>>> hesitant to
>> what is the problem with aliases?
>> somebody (georg) has created an alias folder some time ago for  
>> iemmatrix.
>
> Yes, at least when I made this alias folder iemmatrix it did work  
> quite well.
> I also made aliases for iemlib and some more stuff from iem ... so  
> I don't see a problem ...
> (I agree that maybe in future we should avoid aliases)
>
>>> What's wrong with adding [declare]/[import] to the patch?  Or  
>>> [tof/ blahblah]?
>> i think [declare]/[import] is definitely the way to go, and no  
>> libraries should be loaded by default.
>
> Also IMHO no library should be loaded by default.
> If you program in C/Python/... also no libraries are included/ 
> imported by default.

I am thinking that way too.  But I'd like to test it and see how well  
that works before forcing the change.  Plus I think [declare] and  
[import] need to work a lot better before that can happen.

.hc


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