But is there a way to read programmatically the state of ‘installs’ ? If so 
then this new addition of a menu would tap into it and voilà, low/no 
maintenance and custom, situated content!

> On 10 Mar 2023, at 09:46, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Am 10. März 2023 10:34:52 MEZ schrieb Pierre Alexandre Tremblay 
> <[email protected]>:
>> Great idea Alexandre
>> 
>> Loads of wisdom, IOhannes
>> 
>> The one bit that stick with me is this:
>> 
>>> but as long as it requires manually maintaining a database of any change in 
>>> the objects, i strongly believe that the architecture ought to be 
>>> reconsidered.
>> 
>> Even if it stays as a plugin/extension/whatever, having a call to the pd api 
>> to list all content of registered/loaded/downloaded externals would be 
>> great. Then adding a category to the Decken distribution and there is a 
>> taxonomy that is programmatic and everyone can join in…
> 
> 
> Actually there is (was?) such parsable information embedded in help-patches 
> and the <library>-meta.pd files (btw this parsable info is the raison d'etre 
> for the meta files).
> That was proposed about 15 years ago...
> 
> 
> mfg.sfg.jfd
> IOhannes
> 




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