[PD-dev] auto-starting loaders

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> It would be super userful to have an easy way to make the various loaders 
> auto-load (Lua, Tcl, libdir, etc).

I think it would be even more userful to have hexloader work for 
abstractions.

> 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.

You just have to put every loader in the -lib section of your pdsettings 
or pdrc. That's all.

> I'd really like to see more people using the pdlua, tclpd,

Yeah, one thing that always annoyed me was that although it's extremely 
nice to have this support for a bunch of extra languages, there's scarcely 
anything significant that has been released for pd, that uses those 
languages. I mean, there are not many of those language libs that appear 
to have any more users than the author himself. It may be a sign of how 
those libs are used though: I suppose that they are more often used for 
project-specific code than otherwise. But generally, I think that they are 
underused.

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