Couldn't you simply open older patches with an older version of pd? Even gcc over time requires changes to the source that uses deprecated API.

On Sep 12, 2016 08:22, "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:

On 2016-09-12 11:25, Derek Kwan wrote:
> i think it'd be fine to outright change one and
> break backwards compat

that's most likely because you don't have accumulated a lot of patches
that rely on the old behaviour.

fgmasdr
IOhannes

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