I'd like to make a Request for Peer Pressure: Externals should only use alphanumeric characters and the underscore character. Exceptions are: classes that should have long ago shipped with Vanilla, classes to gain compatibility with Max/MSP, domain-specific operators for a monolithic external library (i.e., one where you're probably going to load the entire library rather than individual classes from it), and legacy pd-extended bunk. So learning about hexloader is good, maintaining zexy/cyclone is good, documenting problem characters on various OSes is good, shipping an external with a creator ":)" is bad. -Jonathan
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:37 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> wrote:
2016-04-05 12:26 GMT-03:00 Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com:
On Windows, for instance, you can't have ? < > | : * \ / " in filenames.
I just confirmed you can't have those characters in a .dll file So, besides these characters in Windows, what are other forbiden ones in other operational systems we run pd on? I have Mac Os and it seems only colon (:) is prohibited (as in windows), or dot (.) at the beginning of a file. How about Linux? cheers _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list