<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I wasn’t implying my thought process was the “correct” usage of the the terms. :) I think Miller and IOhannes are the ones to weight in.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That being said, I think it boils down to, for me, “external(s)” was short for “external library(-ies),” as in software libraries and, even if there is only 1 class or object, it’s still a “library.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From what I understand, your coming from the Pd object side so “external” means “1 object” not part of Pd vanilla and “externals” means “multiple objects” not part of vanilla. I think that definitely makes sense and perhaps I was coming from the wrong/developer direction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">So, in short, the idea I've had so far is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">external (kinda short for "external object"): a single object not part of the Pd Vanilla distribution, either an abstraction or a compiled object </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">library (kinda short for "externals library"): collection of externals.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Yeah, I think that’s probably a good way to look at it (as mentioned above).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do like to note when a library is composed completely of abstractions, hence “abstraction library”, as it's easy to use and doesn’t require compilation. </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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