I think in terms of:

external: set of objects which are not part of the Pd core

library: compiled external object(s), akin to software library

abstraction library: collection of patch abstraction object(s)

As I see, there are 2 types of compiled externals, but I'm not sure how to call them:

1) “single binaries”? (is that how we actually call it?)
2) “libraries” (but isn’t library and pack collection? Even abstraction collections like list-abs? So how do we call this to differentiate in terminology? “Monolithic” distribution?

thanks

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