hello hackers,
shall we introduce a mechanism that guarantees unique object names across the published pd libraries? the problem: for example, both zexy and gem have an external called "abs~". i guess you cannot tell which one gets loaded after you had loaded both libraries.
at the pure database, http://iem.kug.ac.at/pdb/ i made a list of all existing externals and pd objects - you can look there when making an external if its name is free. (and, while you are there, please check the entries of your objects - there is a good chance that some are outdated or even missing)
would it be good to have a kind of registration mechanism? eg. a possibility to registrate names (or fractions of names) on the database?
norbert