Re: [PD] *.lua => *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

There is nothing stopping anyone from making a .dll on
Windows with a setup function and sticking it in pd/extra. If
someone tried to load it, Pd would make it's best effort, and the
setup function won't create any inlets or outlets, so it would just
sit there.

this of course is plain wrong.

the "setup"-function _never_ creates any inlets and outlets, or even an object. it is the "new"-function (aka creator) that handles instantiation.

it is perfectly possible to create a dll that does not provide any objectclasses (and is still "loaded" by Pd). it is not possible to instantiate such a nonexistant objectlass though - it would always "just sit there" in dashed lines...

fgmadsr. IOhannes