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 > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
