[PD] *.lua => *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> (())_n wrote:
>> I like *.lua because editors recognize them as lua and are able to
>> parse the magic.
>
> You should be able to manually choose a highlight mode in any decent
> editor, regardless of extension, and some you should be able to add a
> default mode for extra extensions.
>
> It would be confusing if .pd files were called .txt, I think....

It would be.  But .pd seems good enough, we get along fine  
without .pd_abstraction, .pd_patch, etc.  And Max/MSP's mxj seems to  
work fine only using .java.  pyext seems to work well using  
only .py.  There is nothing stopping anyone from making a .dll on  
Windows with a setup function and sticking it in pd/extra.  If  
someone tried to load it, Pd would make it's best effort, and the  
setup function won't create any inlets or outlets, so it would just  
sit there.

The reason why Pd has so many extensions for binaries is to deal with  
binary incompatibility (i.e. an object compiled for PowerPC won't  
work on Intel).  If you want to make support classes in a separate  
lua file, I would recommend a subdir, like support/myfile.lua. That  
would make things clear without having to create custom file  
extensions, which will break all sorts of other things, like  
automatic detection in editors, as well as creating an extra arcane  
detail unique to Pd that someone has to learn in order to use pdlua.

.hc


>
>> What I was having problems with pdlua is that I have
>> to restart PD whenever I change my script.
>
> Try the [luax scriptname argument1 argument2 a b 1 2] object.  That
> reloads the script on each object creation, but the scripts have to  
> have
> a slightly different format.
>
>
> Claude
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