[PD] (netpd)U(Pd-extended), Pd-ext bug-tracker (was Re: elitism, software and academia)

[Kyle Klipowicz]

On 6/18/07, Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:
> luckily just yesterday, i had a (very simple) idea, for which i waited
> for years:
> instead of opening the netpd-patches with the (for me) inconvenient
> 'open'-message, i want to load them as abstractions. this has the BIG
> advantage, that i can specify the location of a patch (now abstraction)
> relative to the parent patch (creator in this case). by doing that i can
> get rid of the very unwanted 'netpd-path' setting. AND this has a very
> nice side effect: when all patches are actually the same patch, i can
> add a search patch with only one [declare], that is valid for all loaded
> netpd-patches (now abstractions).
> in short: in future versions of netpd there will be no need for
> 'netpd-path' and for a -path flag anymore.
> there is one critical point left: having to have loaded the right
> externals. with [declare], each netpd-patch can define for itself, what
> it wants to have loaded. that means, the only thing, a user will have to
> care, is to have installed the needed externals (which is the case
> anyway in extended)

This is great! I also like an additional feature of this method that
you did not mention. When closing an instrument window, right now it
will actually cause the instrument to disappear. I think that I
actually inadvertantly crashed netpd a few times by doing this (since
I am used to closing abstraction windows and subpatches to free visual
space, but keeping them running still). So now, with this new idea,
you would be able to close these windows in the normal way without it
affecting netpd sessions.

Sorry if I ruined your sessions ever by doing this!!!

> i actually don't have time to implement all these changes and afaik the
> actual stable release of pd-extended is based on 0.39, which lacks
> [declare]. but when pd-extended switches to 0.40 and i'll have made the
> necessary changes, things will be hopefully much easier than today for
> eveveryone, the pd-extended users and pd-vanilla/external users.

You could actually start working on Pd-0.40-extended, as it is already
auto building every night!

~Kyle

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