Hi Cyrille,
On 28/02/2016 14:14, cyrille henry wrote:
this is certainly possible, if someone spend time working on this. but my concern is : why is this important?
i mean : if you don't care about conservation or portability, just start pd loading a maximum of externals and use all of them.
but if you do care about conservation or portability, then load pd with only a minimal set of externals, and "declare" the other only when you need them.
I do care of both. I've used to write my patch with pd-extended, that eliminates the problem "from the root". In this way my patch will work (almost) certainly with pd-extended across each platform and from now on. But I've decided to abandon extended for all the reason that we all know :) The problem, now, is:
- If I want to distribute my patch, it would be great to write down the
dependencies, for example in the README. And virtually, since I've used to work with pd-extended, I've in some way "lost" the border within vanilla objects and extended objects, so I've to manually check each time (i.e.: hummm spigot~ is vanilla? NO, ok... let me check... oh ok... is in the unathorized package -> each time for each object).
- I use different machines with different OS, etc... and sometimes I use
"fresh" pd vanilla installation. Ideally, I want to install only the externals that I need. If I have a list of externals needed for my patch, this process would be much more easy (few clicks with Deken)!
So, my advice is : better than making a mess and try to fix it latter, it's easier to make things clean in the 1st time.
I totally agree with this! :)
Cheers
cheers c