[PD] inconsistencies with lib names (was: representning classes and selectors in the wiki)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 07:30 +0200, 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.
>>
>> iemlib is a special case, because there is not only the  
>> inconsistency of
>> having namespaces in pd-extended and not having them in
>> 'pd-vanilla/externals', but also different names of libraries. in  
>> order
>> to create a patch, that works on both, it's required to have a  
>> [declare]
>> with the all these flags:
>> -stdpath iemabs
>> -stdpath iemlib
>> -stdlib iemlib1
>> -stdlib iemlib2
>> -stdlib iem_t3_lib
>> just to get iemlib working everywhere.
>>
>> since [declare] doesn't output an error, when not finding a lib or a
>> path, this can be handled this way, though it is a bit awkward.
>>
>> yo, lets make it simple: shouldn't the one or the other be skipped in
>> cvs? since the libdir is more widely used, i assume, and has also  
>> some
>> advantages compared to the old standard (am i right here?), let's  
>> skip
>> the old way of creating externals. i thirst for consistency,  
>> really. i
>> am going to found the church of consistency.
>
> some people could probably find it a bit nasty, that a guy like me,  
> who
> haven't contributed not a single line of code to the cvs yet, does  
> make
> such proposals. please excuse me for that (i'm already a bit tired and
> have had some beers).
> however, the church of consistency will be founded.

I'll only forgive you if you fix it!  ;)

.hc


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