[PD-dev] linking in the heat

Krzysztof Czaja czaja at chopin.edu.pl
Sat Jun 22 17:45:45 CEST 2002


hi,

even if in a very vague way, I would like to defend the idea of
introducing qualified class names into Pd, in some form or the
other.  First, I think people are generally used to this idea --
it is a natural way of thinking not only among c++ programmers
and other freaks, but also among internet surfers (domain names).

Second, any central naming system would require establishing the
central authority (or a voting system), and enforcement powers.

Third, if there are two externals providing the same feature, but
differently, I would like both to have the same proper name, and
either explicitly qualify in an object box, or globally declare
that I am going to use one or the other (such declaration should
be part of a patch, instead of a command line, though).

Krzysztof

ydegoyon at free.fr wrote:
...
 >>I dont really like the libraryname_externalname approach ..
...
 > yep, agree with that, because accepting
 > there might be several externals with the same name
 > is not a good principle : it would obfuscate
 > a little bit more the art of making patches.
 >
 > what we'd really need is a central naming system.





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