On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: >> >>> Frank Barknecht schrieb: >>>> But as >>>> everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external >>>> has to >>>> be a C/C++ external, I'll better be quiet now. ;) >>>> >>>> >>> Right. Over and out >> >> Basically, only C and Pd externals have proven easy to manage. > > lua is a C external (or rather a loader) and it's very easy to manage. > Once the lua loader is built for your system (trivial on Linux and > probably just as trivial on OS-X and MS-Windows, but I don't have > access to these systems) a lua objectclasses is the equivalent to an > abstraction, which especially means, that it's just as easily changed > and edited by its users without every needing to recompile anything.
From what I hear from Marius' struggles with pdlua, it's definitely not trivial, and I would say, I probably wouldn't call it easy either. I intend to help Marius get pdlua into Pd-extended, then it'll be easy and hopefully even trivial to use. .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- "Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls you." - Richard M. Stallman _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
