Recall cyclone/count~ which used to make Pd crash when receiving the
'set' message. Everyone learned to not send it that message. Now that
the bug is fixed people may start using the set message, causing
spurious crashes for those who use the patch with an old cyclone
version. Oddly, the crasher bug fix may lead to a temporary increase
of crash incidents. The remedy is simple for everyone; upgrade to the
latest cyclone.
That’s an interesting point.
In that case, I’d make an abstraction wrapper around [count~] that filtered out the set message and printed something about it (aka “upgrade perhaps? :)". Add that to the repo for the older version, although there is no guarantee what version people would have.
Thankfully, deken should help make a transition like this easier.