Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
I wasn't saying anything about GNU/Linux or Windows. I was talking
Mac OS X. .pd_darwin is all that is needed. .d_fat, etc cause more
troubles than the fix.
but i was talking about architectures _and_ platforms (the later being freebsd, linux, irix, windows, darwin, ...)
i would like to see a naming convention that is valid on all these platforms and where i can have files live side by side on a network share. (e.g. .so is bad because i cannot distinguish between linux/i386, linux/ppc, linux/x86_64 and eventually osx/fat.
if d_fat is deprecated, i don't have any more problems with it than with pd_darwin. however, if it _is_ deprecated, then l_i386 and l_ia64 should be deprecated as well, and i do see problems with .pd_linux (there is no fat binary on linux afaik)
and the most confusing thing i can imagine here is having .dll (native), .pd_darwin (custom) and .l_ia64 (custom, but different).
i think there are 2 possibilities:
- use native extensions on all platforms (eg .dylib instead of .d_fat)
OR
- use custom and consistent extensions on all platforms (either d_fat or
pd_msw; the latter not solving my linux problem, the former solving them)
i still don't see _any_ trouble caused by d_fat with respect to pd_darwin, apart from pure reactionary movements.
cheers...
gmydsr IOhannes