[PD-dev] auto-starting loaders

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It would be super userful to have an easy way to make the various  
loaders auto-load (Lua, Tcl, libdir, etc).  For the 0.43 GUI plugins,  
currently, it will autoload any file called *-plugin.tcl anywhere in  
the path, so to install a 0.43 GUI plugin, you just drop the file into  
the Pd path and restart.

I was thinking we could do the same with with loaders.  So *- 
loader.pd_linux (or maybe *-loader.so) anywhere in the Pd path would  
be loaded at startup.

I'd really like to see more people using the pdlua, tclpd, libdir,  
etc. and I think making them really easy to install on all platforms  
would go a long way towards making that happen.

.hc

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