[PD-dev] Re: Restructuring of CVS/externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> Thanks to IOhannes' hex loader patch, the setup functions will work
>>>> with these names now too.  Within Pd, its a symbol, so it should be  
>>>> no
>>>> problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be for abstractions, AFAIK.
>>
>> my original hex-loader was used whenever it comes to the instantion
>> (what is the word? creation of a class) of an (yet unknown) object:  
>> thus
>> it worked for both externals and abstractions.
>
> I admit, I didn't yet play with the patch, so this question may
> stupid, but: To save a patch using a silly name, do I need to "escape"
> forbidden characters by hand or does the file selector take care of
> this?

Hmm... that's a good question.  Currently, you have to do it by hand,  
but it should probably do it automatically perhaps...

.hc

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