I think communication is necessary anyways, but a technical solution would allow pd to scale to a larger community. namespaces also allow names to be more easy to understand. A startup flag would be very nice to have now though, it would allow using all of the libraries
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El 04/11/2004, a las 23:19, Tim Blechmann escribió:
hi all ...
i'm currently thinking of a way to solve the nameclash problem (counter, scale, prepend, gate...)
here are some suggestions for a solution ... with some pros and cons:
namespaces: add the library name like library/object or library::object pros: - selectable at runtime
- the patch will work exactly as you expect, since you see that object is from library
cons: - "/" is already used for the search path (shouldn't be a big problem), "::" are two chars - only works if an object is compiled as library ... if a library is split to single externals (like the build system does) pd is not aware of the library name
startup flav: having another flag like -force library/object or
-force library::object pros: - easy to use cons: - you can't use both library1::object and library2::object
behaviour of the patch depends on startup flags (less portable)
communication: figure out, if the external name is already in use pros: - no implementation effords cons: - not really working (that's why we've got these problems *g*)
standard behaviour: if object1 is doing the same as object2, except that it is missing one feature, add this feature to object1, if they behave exactly the same, the nameclash isn't a problem any more ... (escept for the waste of memory) pros: - as above cons: - as above
personally i'd prefer the communication in combination with a startup flag ... but i'm curious about other ideas or comments ...
cheers ... tim
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