With all this talk, it would be interesting to actually get a copy of these externals to try them out. Are these posted somewhere? Thanks,

http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~elyon/LyonSoftware/Pd/

I haven't officially announced them yet since I've only compiled and tested on Macintosh (i86 and ppc) so far. Frank Barknecht informs me that the included Makefiles compile and work for Linux. Supposedly Windows compilation also works except that it is tricky to compile the few externals that use more than one file of source code. If anyone wants to build and send me versions for Linux or Windows I'll put them up at my site. This will all be released under the MIT licence when I get around to tidying things up.

Best,

Eric