hi,
this is basically an explicit way of achieving what IOhannes proposed some time ago. The problem is that nobody without gem installed would ever write 'maxlib.scale' -- so patches still remain nonportable. The solution is either for Pd to store lib names in a patch file (thus implicitly declaring patch dependencies), or for the external writers to simply avoid name clashes in the first place.
Krzysztof
Olaf Matthes wrote: ...
I just had an idea how to solve (or 'work around') nameclashes. I'm not a fan
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The 'normal' object name would then be 'maxlib_scale' but 'scale' would also work. In case Gem would define it's scale as 'gem_scale' with the optional