On Fri, 2021-02-26 at 10:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > On 2/22/21 10:06 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Is it possible to detect dependencies from within a patch? > > > > Often people report problems without mentioning '... couldn't > > create' > > errors. Also, people not so familiar with Pd don't know what > > library a > > certain objects belongs to and maybe also don't know how to search > > for > > it in "Find externals". > > > > I think the ability to give proper feedback at patch loading time > > would > > help to address this issue. > > while not giving "proper feedback", there has been a feature request > in > deken to support something like this for ages > > i've implemented a little prototype of how it could look like: > <https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/84#issuecomment-786533931
Thanks for the pointer. This would address my request. Further down, I found this: https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/122 From what I understand, this would somewhat diminish the need for helping users identify missing externals when the _specified_ stuff is installed automatically. Roman
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