[PD] Pd compiling

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Jan 31 05:50:49 CET 2006


On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:01 PM, cdr wrote:

>> Hm, I share Pd patches with people on and off this list for years now,
>> it never was a big problem to use patches made by someone else, so I
>> don't see where the problem is? Is it installing externals?
>
> its knowing which externals to use, in the nameclash sense, as well as  
> in the nondescript error in the scroll like: expected float but got  
> '', etc. practically impossible to even tell which object it is  
> talking about...

This demonstrates why I am pushing for a namespace.  If each patch has  
a namespace, then that patch can save which versions of the objects it  
uses as part of the patch.

Plus that error message should be more descriptive, its maddeningly  
useless.

.hc
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