On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:48 -0400, marius schebella wrote:
how many nameclashes do we have? 20, 30? how many libraries are
affected 5? yea, that's what has to be done. the situation right now is worse than any solution with a default
class. because an object like urn is already problematic. a mentored "quasi-official" pd-objectclass list would at least guarantee future compatibility for the one class that would be considered the default. and the other urns would have to be explicitely called with
notdefault/urn. but that is exactly what needs to be done to prevent nameclashes.
if you don't do it, then you never will have compatibility...how important is the portability between pd-extended and pd-vanilla/externals considered? any solution, that involves the [mylib/myclass] scheme creates patches, that are broken on a pd installation with multiclass externals.
not only this, but also for a patch dev it can be quite a pain to
make a patch work on both using [declare], because in one case you need -stdpath and in the other -stdlib. in the end you are forced to use always both for no good reason.i think it is not up to me to ask such questions, but wouldn't it be generally better, if the multiple-class-per-external format would be simply dropped? this would also have the nice side effect, that noone would ever use aliasses anymore, which currently (and in the future?) aren't fully supported.
This sounds great to me, but this is probably no surprise! :)
.hc
from what i can tell, making a patch work exactly the same on extended and vanilla adds quite some overhead. or is it only me, who would like to create portable (between vanilla and extended) patches?
roman
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