[PD-dev] cyclone and uppercase

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I also think that aliases are a bad idea in general, and I think we 
> should always try to avoid them,

What have those aliases done to you!

So, is there any other reasons for shunning aliases than symbolic-links 
not being supported by one of the major OSes?... Because that's one of the 
arguments in favour of -lib.

I think that aliases can be quite useful, especially in combination with 
$1 in the classname of an objectbox, and though aliasing can also be done 
with putting a single objectbox in an abstraction (plus required [inlet] 
and [outlet]), it still can't be done with variable numbers of [inlet]s 
and [outlet]s.

> recent versions of Max/MSP (we're talking like 5 years old), it should 
> also work with the downcased names.  If someone can come up with a 
> better way to support this, I am all ears.

Use a loader_t (or t_loader) that makes the Pd system case-insensitive... 
although it's possible that some people already rely on 
case-sensitiveness.

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