[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Wed Jan 16 16:44:08 CET 2008


Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Could you elaborate a bit how this works, especially in regard to
> possible nameclashes e.g. in pd-extended? Those currently are worked
> around by having the libraries in different subdirectories? Example:
> Both maxlib and zexy have incompatible versions of [urn], so if you
> install maxlib and zexy in "extra" and use "-autoload extra", won't
> you have in fact circumvented the directory-namespace system?
> 

and don't forget, that for one-object-per-file externals, you will not 
gain so much anyhow: the "libraries" are loaded on request (when you 
instantiate the [urn] object for the first time pd will search for an 
urn.l_i386 (or similar) - you don't need to pre-load it at startup)

fmad.r
IOhannes




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