#290 libdir loader can't handle classname same as library name

[eerne]

with Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080516-macosx104-i386.dmg the sssad-help.pd file does not work out of the box.

libdir_loader: added sssad to the canvas-local path
sssad key
... couldn't create
libdir_loader: added sssad to the canvas-local path
sssad key
... couldn't create
libdir_loader: added sssad to the canvas-local path
sssad key
... couldn't create
libdir_loader: added sssad to the canvas-local path
sssad key
... couldn't create
sssad-example
... couldn't create

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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so the problem is that the libdir for sssad is currently called 'sssad'. Since the main object is also called 'sssad', there is a nameconflict. Frank must have found this himself, since he named the included folder '_sssad'. I am not really sure how to solve this, except include sssad in a different library.

Any suggestions?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I named the private subdirectory "_sssad" just randomly, loosly inspired by Pyton's convention of using underscores for private stuff. I wasn't thinking of some libdir conflict at that time at all. As the sssad "library" consists of only one object I didn't consider namespacing for it at all.

I haven't used libdirs so far, but I think, objects which have the same name as the libdir should be possible as well.

--Frank (not logged in, but believe me it's me)

[hardoff]

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creating a [sssad] object in pd-extended causes the following error in the console:

libdir_loader: added 'sssad' to the canvas-local objectclass path
libdir_loader: added 'sssad' to the canvas-local objectclass path
libdir_loader: added 'sssad' to the canvas-local objectclass path

...about 1000 times, and then finally says:

error: maximum object loading depth 1000 reached
sssad
... couldn't create

several people have suggested that there is a glitch in the libdir loader that won't allow for an abstraction to have the same name as its enclosing folder.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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The problem is somewhere in the relationship of the libdir loader and Pd's logic for checking if it has already loaded a binary library. If you load a libdir called "blah", you won't be able to load [blah/blah] or [blah].