[PD-dev] [declare -distro vanilla]

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 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.  

what would e.g. Pd-vanilla that supported a "-distro" flag do if it 
encountered a [declare -distro maxmsp]?

furthermore: i don't think that it is good design to have [declare] 
accept _any_ arguments and ignore them at will (e.g. if it decides to 
not support "-distro", then it could either explicitely ignore "-distro" 
or accept any argument and only use those that it knows about.


> This distro flag would then setup the canvas-local namespace with the 
> libraries as they are loaded for that distro.


in general, i think the idea tobe able to load named library-bundles is 
not such a bad idea.
i imagine it (right now; but this could be total nonsense) to load 
snippets of preference-files (that are stored somewhere in the path).

e.g.
<snip>
% cat ~/.pd/moko.prefs
path: ~/pd/mokolib
stdlib: rjdj

</snip>

and using [declare -loadbundle moko] would then add the path and lib to 
the canvas-local namespace.

gmsft
IOhannes
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