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

[Thomas Grill]

> 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)?

There _will_ be some. I'm just testing flext to be a .dll or .dylib (or
shortly .so), which looks very promising.
All my externals can then optionally be built with shared flext.
This has one major advantage: Attributes of any flext-based object in the
system can be inspected from another one. Max-like inspectors are then
possible.

By the way, as i'm a strong supporter of external libraries... what are the
reasons why i would not want to use them?

best greetings,
Thomas