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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> The point remains, even though Pd objectclasses on Windows use the  
>> same file extension as generic libraries (dll), it is not causing  
>> problems.
>
> Didn't you yourself have issues with your hid external?  I seem to  
> recall you had to rename it to hidio because of conflicts with  
> Windows' own hid.dll or something?  That is the same kind of  
> conflict that will be avoided by naming the Lua scripts .pd_lua  
> instead of .lua alone.
>
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2006-01/005721.html

That is true, but the issue that started this thread was about  
mistakenly loading lua files that were not meant to be Pd  
objectclasses, no?  That's a different issue.  I don't think that the  
OS would prevent loading different myobject.lua files, but Windows  
has surprised me with its stupidity more than once.  Plus that  
applied to Windows' loader.  The Pd loader is separate, which is what  
pdlua is using.

I think this kind of thing should be caused by a real world problem  
rather than a hypothetical.  mxj uses .java and it has been used a  
lot.  People could also write java classes that are not intended to  
be loaded by Max and stick them in the same folder.  So far, it  
doesn't seem to be a problem, AFAIK.

.hc

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