[PD] comment connection

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] comment connection
> To: "Ed Kelly" <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "PD List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 4:12 PM
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Ed Kelly wrote:
> 
> > I'm just curious - but also if you could change
> comments then it means you could make help files to give you
> information about installing etc the required externals.
> Then the helpfile would only come up correctly if the whole
> abstraction was working. I'm interested in this - Metastudio
> uses a lot of externals...
> 
> I think that it wouldn't be hard to have comments support
> the same self-modification methods that messageboxes do, but
> I also think that there is no real incentive yet.

Please define what you would consider an incentive (as opposed 
to what you call a detail).  I bet I'll be able to come up with 
at least five.

-Jonathan

> 
> I don't see why you'd absolutely need your auto-generated
> installation info to be put in a self-modified comment.
> Isn't that a detail ? Am I missing something in your request
> (such as something to do with GOP) ?
> 
> 
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