[PD-dev] generating the standard library: techniques

[carmen]

> So the question is, if we're going ahead to create this kind of standard 
> libs for PD, what should they be written in?

C

> 


> If we want a lot of functionality fast then python seems like the best 
> solution

anyone can already use Python, Tcl Scheme, Guile, Ruby etc..

it would be great to have bindings to all the POSIX stuff like fopen() etc , instead of semi-featured inconsistent frontends to a few pieces here and there like the [sprintf] external in cyclone or the [popen] external or bits of fopen() in soundfiler..maybe it can be generated with SWIG.. since stuff like python just hooks into the same things, i dont see why PD cant do it without a middleman..although maybe string/raw-bytes types and some better object-reference mechanisms would help? .. i have no idea how much work it would be  (has anyone on this list implemented a standard library in a scripting language?)