generally i very much like the idea of Pd-core not depending on any 3rd party framework (whether that would be TclTk, Qt, GTK, JUCE or whatever) directly. (so I do not have to install half the whole world OR re-compile if I want transfer a Pd binary to a headless system)
We'd just need a configure option that allows to build Pd without the GUI. That's also what SuperCollider does: there's an option for building sclang without Qt (e.g. for headless systems).
It's just like building Pd with our without JACK, for example.
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ยน and currently sys_vgui(). eventually i would like to get rid of sys_vgui() altogether, but at the time of writing there are still a few invocations of sys_vgui() left in the core, which would also need to be replaced. yss_vgui() is also used by plenty of externals that communicate directly with the GUI, one would have to think what to do about them.
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