Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think that we'd probably be better off not adding any more arcane
file extensions.
Lua scripts don't have a required file extension, the .lua is just a convention in the lua world, but as an embedded language, you will fine lua scripts with all kinds of other extensions. *.lua however is kind of required when you import modules using "require", but as pdlua scripts aren't modules, we'd better avoid to use it as well.
An easy way to avoid this is to have pdlua look for a setup function
in the .lua it is trying to open. If there is no setup function,
then it wouldn't load that file. That's really the key technique for
loading pd binaries. The differing file extensions aren't really
necessary.
I don't know much about it, but aren't loaders in Pd registered for file endings? I guess it may slow down things a lot if python, rt-scheme, Q, lua or whatever loader would first need to inspect all files to find out that most aren't loadable.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__