hi,
even if in a very vague way, I would like to defend the idea of introducing qualified class names into Pd, in some form or the other. First, I think people are generally used to this idea -- it is a natural way of thinking not only among c++ programmers and other freaks, but also among internet surfers (domain names).
Second, any central naming system would require establishing the central authority (or a voting system), and enforcement powers.
Third, if there are two externals providing the same feature, but differently, I would like both to have the same proper name, and either explicitly qualify in an object box, or globally declare that I am going to use one or the other (such declaration should be part of a patch, instead of a command line, though).
Krzysztof
ydegoyon@free.fr wrote: ...
I dont really like the libraryname_externalname approach ..
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yep, agree with that, because accepting there might be several externals with the same name is not a good principle : it would obfuscate a little bit more the art of making patches.
what we'd really need is a central naming system.