As IOhannes says the hope is that somehow externals can simply be dynamically loaded from vst plugins at runtime.

(I think I heard camomile might have some other limitations for this with permissions or something right now anyways)

an example is plugdata https://github.com/timothyschoen/PlugData which is based on camomile. it would be great if users of the plugin wouldn't have to go about compiling their own externals and/or compiling the plugin themselves, if those other issues are resolved.

-seb

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:45:41 +0200

From: Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>

To: pd-dev <pd-dev@lists.iem.at>

Subject: Re: [PD-dev] call for discussion double-precision file

extension

I lean much more on the side that PDINSTANCE is a low-level, per project compile option and not general-purpose. If you are using libpd, then your environment is a bit more custom anyway.

> On Mar 30, 2022, at 5:40 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:06:23 +0200

> From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at <mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at>>

> To: pd-dev@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-dev@lists.iem.at>

> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] call for discussion double-precision file

> extension

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> On 3/29/22 20:26, Sebastian Shader via Pd-dev wrote:

>> I wonder if anything should be considered for multi-instance support as well (externals compiled w/ PDINSTANCE)

> good question.