On macOS, unzip usually is a simple double click. On Window/Linux it's usually something like right click -> extract. Is this too much to ask for users of a computer music program? ;-)

Christof

On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 18:49 +0800, Matt Davey wrote:

Much easier just to
have 2 subpatches than save a separate abstraction file, especially
if you're working on a big project with lots of files.  Also makes it
easier to share things with people if you only have to share one .pd
file rather than a folder with abstractions, etc.

I see how distributing only one file is simpler than a folder with many
pd files, but having many copies of the same code is impractical and
clumsy. How about an extended file format (.pdz?) that is actually an
archive containing all the relevant files that would be extracted on
the fly at loading time? I can't count the number of software that work
like this, so there is precedent. Am not sure if the added bloat to Pd
would be worthwhile...

Roman 

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