On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It would be super userful to have an easy way to make the various
loaders auto-load (Lua, Tcl, libdir, etc).
I think it would be even more userful to have hexloader work for
abstractions.
I was thinking we could do the same with with loaders. So *-
loader.pd_linux (or maybe *-loader.so) anywhere in the Pd path
would be loaded at startup.
You just have to put every loader in the -lib section of your
pdsettings or pdrc. That's all.
Its an extra step that doesn't seem necessary. And we are getting to
drag-n-drop installation of libraries, plus the preferences in Pd are
a mess.
I'd really like to see more people using the pdlua, tclpd,
Yeah, one thing that always annoyed me was that although it's
extremely nice to have this support for a bunch of extra languages,
there's scarcely anything significant that has been released for pd,
that uses those languages. I mean, there are not many of those
language libs that appear to have any more users than the author
himself. It may be a sign of how those libs are used though: I
suppose that they are more often used for project-specific code than
otherwise. But generally, I think that they are underused.
Personally, I think they are underused because they are difficult to
install and use. That's why I want to make it trivially easy to
install.
.hc
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