[PD-dev] tgrills' alternate loader function

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I just saw the alternate loader patch and really like that idea.  It  
would be handy to write externals in any script language too.  Since  
IOhannes and I have also just written alternate loaders of sorts (HEX  
and libdir), it would be good to incorporate these two patches with  
yours and get it into the Pd-extended builds to try it out.

There isn't enough info for me to include your patch, to start with, a  
diff -uw (with context) would make for a more flexible patch.  Also, I  
didn't see how to add new loader functions (I've never worked with  
pointers to functions in C).

You can see IO's and my patches in CVS in packages/patches.   
loaderHEX-0.39-1.patch and libdir-0.38-4.patch.  Both apply smoothly to  
0.38.4 and pd in CVS.

.hc

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