[PD-dev] dealing with patch dependencies (being stuck at widget's redesign)

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi all,

in the ideal world there is only a patch file.

In most real cases patches depend on various resources -- sound
files, midi files, abstractions, externals, and what not.  This
is a tough thing to deal with, if pd projects are to be moved
between systems, merged one with another, or simply survive
installation changes.

I wonder how people handle these things.  Is there a common
practice, or any home-brew tricks which help in interchanging
(or merging, or switching between, etc.) projects more reliably
than by hand?

This is quite a general problem.  One special case is, of course,
resolving object creation names (i.e. dealing with external name
clashes, among other things).

Krzysztof

(The resources 'widget' depends on are ``widget definition files''.
Currently, widget uses both the installation-wide default.wid
file, and per-widget-type definition files.  Now I am looking for
a way of associating these with particular patches.)