[PD] inconsistencies with lib names

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
>
>> i tried to always call it 'pd-vanilla/externals', not just 'pd- 
>> vanilla',
>> in order to make clear, that i am using pd-vanilla and compiling the
>> externals myself. anyway, if i compile the externals how it is  
>> described
>> in the README, that comes with the externals, and which i call the
>> 'original way' to compile them, i get one library containing several
>> objects, where namespaces don't work.
>
> Currently for Pd-extended it's kind of opaque or mysterious how
> externals or libraries got their namesspace names.  As all the objects
> need to be in their own directory to not overwrite each others
> nameclashes, it was natural to takes directory names from CVS and then
> somehow the directory names got promoted to namespaces, even when the
> original authors never intended to use their CVS-directory names as
> namespace. Iemlib is one example, list-abs is another.
>
> Who makes the decision about what words to use as namespace prefixes?
> The author of the library? Pd-list? Everone on her/his own? Hans?

What happened is that when there were libs that I thought should be  
included in Pd-extended, but I had to do the work myself to include  
them, I hacked it together.  It seems quite apparent now, I made some  
bad decisions.  Feel free to correct them :-D.  (And if you haven't  
noticed yet, I'm all about big, toothy grins :-D ).

I think going forward, the author should name her library and that  
name should be used for the namespace prefix.  There are some rules  
that should apply, like no special characters in library names, all  
lowercase, etc.  I also hope that when people are deciding what to  
call their library, they will consult the list.  But it is inevitable  
that some people won't, so our system should be flexible enough to  
support that, not without limits tho.

.hc

>
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