[PD-dev] BUG: namespace prefixes broken in 0.40

[Miller Puckette]

Yep, I have to look at (and try to understand) that... I'll bump that
up on my dolist :)

cheers
M

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:29:16AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I did a quick check, seems to work again.  Will report again if there  
> are problems.
> 
> How about the patch that IOhannes submitted a while aback making the  
> the astraction-canvas use the prefix and classname?  That is also  
> important since it puts objects written in Pd on the same footing at  
> C objects.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=1403917&group_id=55736&atid=478072
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >This should now be fixed in CVS (branch stable_0_40)...
> >
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
> >On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 05:19:00PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>I was just looking into the new canvas-based env and [declare]
> >>stuff.  The canvas-specific path stuff is definitely a step in the
> >>right direction.  But as it is now, namespace prefixes are totally
> >>broken.   It is no longer possible to use [prefix/classname] syntax,
> >>which is essential to the namespaces because it is the only way that
> >>two classes with the same root classname could be used in the same
> >>patch, i.e. like this, where each object is a different class:
> >>
> >>[prepend]
> >>[cxc/prepend]
> >>[cyclone/prepend]
> >>
> >>This is because with the new sys_onloadlist() functionality that
> >>checks to see whether a class has already been loaded.  It only uses
> >>the direct classname, not the prefix also.
> >>
> >>.hc
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