On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:06 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Then there could be also something like a 'maxmsp' distro for a
compatibility mode. So I was thinking there could be a "#X declare
-distro vanilla" that each distro saves into every file. It would
be safely ignored for Pd versions that didn't support the -distro
flag.
what would e.g. Pd-vanilla that supported a "-distro" flag do if it
encountered a [declare -distro maxmsp]?
That would be up to Miller. Ignoring it would be one possibility.
furthermore: i don't think that it is good design to have [declare]
accept _any_ arguments and ignore them at will (e.g. if it decides
to not support "-distro", then it could either explicitely ignore "-
distro" or accept any argument and only use those that it knows about.
I am not sure I follow what you are asking. The behavior of this would
be dependent on the distro. So someone could quietly ignore all -
distro flags, they could through warnings or errors, or do a little
dance.
This distro flag would then setup the canvas-local namespace with
the libraries as they are loaded for that distro.
in general, i think the idea tobe able to load named library-bundles
is not such a bad idea.
i imagine it (right now; but this could be total nonsense) to load
snippets of preference-files (that are stored somewhere in the path).
e.g.
<snip>
% cat ~/.pd/moko.prefs
path: ~/pd/mokolib
stdlib: rjdj
</snip>
and using [declare -loadbundle moko] would then add the path and lib
to the canvas-local namespace.
gmsft
IOhannes
I think that there should be some distro file format that could be
placed in a folder to be installed and used. That way people could
freely create and distribution their own.
I am thinking this isn't like a library, I think there would only be a
handful of distros defined. I don't think this functionality would
work so well with many, many distros but perhaps.
.hc
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