for the "bundling all the abstractions into one package thing" (one of my wishes, after my friends patch grew from 24k to 1.5megs & stopped working for me due to missing abstractions).
i wonder if it would be enough to have pd able to read/write tar files, with the responsibility for debugging placed on the creator of the patch (possibly with some kind of terminal output or tool that says... this aint working... which pd does already, though it could have hints in the output or a hint mode that says... try moving all abstractions to one folder first. some kind of dependancy finding script could run first)
& i suppose for the emacs jockeys some kind of mode that explodes the tar back into individual .pd's again
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