On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
I've been thinking about some other ways to do that (also would
like to
figure out how to bundle externs, files for 'qlist', etc in a single
gesture) but there's something about this particular idea I like...
(OK here are some others:
2. Have a "bundle" file type that causes Pd actually to build a
directory for a patch to run in complete with any other files needed
This bundle could be easily the same format as the libdir. We'd just
need a way to create them from within the Pd GUI. Right now, in the
folder "mylib", there is "mylib-meta.pd". The presence of this file
marks the folder as a libdir.
In the not-to-distant future, this file will be parsed for
requirements for that library, like whether it needs a python, CLR,
etc. loader; the author, license, and description of the library, and
so on and so forth.
One question is whether this should be in a .jar-like compressed
tarball or not.
.hc
3. fix file reading so that the Pd file format can pre-define
nonexistent
file pathnames that "binbuf_read" and "sys_load_lib", etc. would check
for and pretend were there
4. write a general state-saving mechanism of some sort
)
Anyway, there's something elegant about the "pddefine" mechanism -
if I
could just generalize it to cover at least some of the other
situations
I'd do it right away :)
thanks
Miller
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:29:53PM -0700, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
I just thought I'd propose an idea I had driving home : ):
As a supplement to the subpatcher functionality, what about having a
[pddefine] object that took a name as its argument, and a patch built
inside would then be callable within the parent patch patch, acting
functionally equivalent to an abstraction (i.e. arguments, etc).
The advantage of this would to simplify distribution of pd-patches
that would like to use abstractions, but don't want to have to
include
15 files for one program. It would also be great for "1-off"
abstractions that aren't usable elsewhere, but are needed multiple
times in the same patch.
Anyhow, I can't write it, so I guess it's just an idea for able devs
to consider.
Luke
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