[PD] benevolent dictator?

[Bryan Jurish]

morning all,

My technique (read: "hack") for auto-loading libraries in vanilla has
been just to instantiate an object [foo] in order to load the library
foo.pd_linux.  This causes error messages for some libraries (notably
xsample, which I use a lot), but works well with the vanilla loader.  I
guess we can't dictate that every library xyz.pd_linux register a class
'xyz', but that's the simplest way I've found of loading libs.  Of
course, you can't declare inter-library dependencies this way (that I
know of), but it's a start...

marmosets,
  Bryan

On 2010-07-13 12:26:42, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> appears to
have written:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48:18AM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>> Personally, I'd prefer to not auto-load anything at all, which would
>> also encourage a nice patching style with explicitly loading the
>> required libraries.  I'd be interested to hear what others think about
>> the matter. 
> 
> I would love a proper way for Pd vanilla/core to load libraries into
> abstractions. I know of [import] but most of my abstraction libraries
> target vanilla installs, too, so I cannot use it. And [declare]
> currently is designed for top-level _main.pd-style patches only, so
> there's no way to really preload list-abs in RTC-lib-abstractions for
> example. 
> 
> If this issue is solved, the problem of autoloading becomes almost moot.
> Well, there still are some issues like the sad omission of "sssad" in
> Pd-extended which is not shipped at all but such things are
> comparatively trivial to fix.
> 
> Ciao

-- 
Bryan Jurish                           "There is *always* one more bug."
jurish at ling.uni-potsdam.de      -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology