[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[c]

> Both Perl and Ruby use directories labeled like i386-linux and

what exactly is the purpose of this? maybe some crazy netboot AFS
setup for an entire university that had a sitewide ruby or perl
install but everyone had arch specific interpreter binaries in their
$HOME/bin? i just don't see it...even on a multilib system, its not
like theres a /usr/lib/ruby/i8086-hurd/bin/ruby, yet for the
extensions theres /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux and
/usr/lib32/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -> the second platform specification is
redundant and could easily be replaced by 'lib' or 'extra' or such...

the most fitting thing for pd would probably be branch-specific dirs,
for example itd be great when running canonical it didnt bomb out
loading externals that reference a fftw symbol or use idle callbacks,
and likewise id rather not have stock devel try to load GUI externals
compiled for desire_devel...etc. it got to the point i had to
recompile externals every time i was switching pd versions (maybe
version-specific .pdrc sections would work too...)

not that anyone would want to externalize these differences onto the
filesystem, but they exist anyway, and the user is far more likely to
run into them then accidentally ending up with a darwin external on
their windows install??

c