[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Jan 16 17:47:43 CET 2008


Hallo,
IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> 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)

And how to discern between one-object-per-file object files and
many-objects-per-file library files?

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__




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