Yes, that's true, the real problem is something else: There is no easy way to get a list of external/abstraction dependencies for any given patch. If you could get such a list, complete with file locations, it would be easier to collect all your patches for an archive file.
~David
On 5/15/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote:
what do you gain from turning abstractions into subpatches??
You gain the advantage of being able to distribute a Pd patch built from many disparate abstractions as a single file.
this advantage you gain from being able to embed abstractions in abstractions, while at the same time you still have the features of abstractions (namely: abstraction)
apart from that, tar allows you to distribute your multi-file Pd patch as a single file too.
mfga.sdr IOhannes
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