[PD-dev] auto-starting loaders

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> 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.

Its an extra step that doesn't seem necessary. And we are getting to  
drag-n-drop installation of libraries, plus the preferences in Pd are  
a mess.

>> 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.

Personally, I think they are underused because they are difficult to  
install and use.  That's why I want to make it trivially easy to  
install.

.hc


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