[PD-dev] individual files vs. libs for externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I am almost completely convinced of Guenter's argument that all 
externals should be individual files.  I have two questions on that 
topic:

Are there any examples of a group of externals made up of individual 
files using a DLL for shared code?  Would the DLL be a .pd_linux or a 
.so (or .pd_darwin / .dylib)?

Is there anyway to have aliases when using externals in separate files? 
(i.e. receive = r, prepend = pp, etc).

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