[PD-dev] [declare -distro vanilla]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I was just thinking about loading libraries and namespaces.  One thing  
that a lot of people want to do is have a default set of libraries  
loaded so that they are already in the global namespace and don't need  
declare/import or a namespace prefix.   If you think of the included  
objectclasses and abstractions as objectclasses that are no different  
than any other, then we have something like this for a list of  
existing distros:

vanilla
pd-externals (Debian package)
pd-extended
pure:dyne? (does this load some libs by default?)
rjdj

Then there could be also something like a 'maxmsp' distro for a  
compatibility mode.  So I was thinking there could be a "#X declare - 
distro vanilla" that each distro saves into every file.  It would be  
safely ignored for Pd versions that didn't support the -distro flag.   
This distro flag would then setup the canvas-local namespace with the  
libraries as they are loaded for that distro.

Just an idea that I wanted to through out there.

.hc

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