[PD] How to check if a patch is vanilla

Alessio Degani alessio.degani at ymail.com
Sat Feb 27 15:14:14 CET 2016


On 27/02/2016 13:12, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> On 27/02/16 11:05, Alessio Degani via Pd-list wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I think that this question was already pointed out in this list, but I
>> can't find it anymore.
>> Is there a simple way to chek if a pd patch is made only using vanilla
>> object?
>> Or:
>> Is there a way to find which external lib are needed for a given patch?
>> A possible solution is to keep a plain vanilla distribution to load a
>> given patch and check the console for missing object, but this approach,
>> for a BIG patch is not practical. The ideal case should be, for example,
>> to load a patch and see a list of each object/lib pair that are actually
>> loaded.
>>
>> My goal is to find if a patch is vanilla compatible and, if not, which
>> are the lib that I need to run it.
>
> This is kind of the holy grail I guess :)  I think there is an issue 
> on the Deken tracker about this or something similar.
>
> I had some success years ago by patching Pd core to print out when 
> classes are registered by externals, so that I could generate a few 
> object lists for libraries (including 'vanilla' as a virtual library). 
> I could then use these lists with shell scripts parsing a Pd patch to 
> see which objects were needed from which libraries - it was all proof 
> of concept stuff, don't think I even supported chasing local 
> abstractions, and of course it would only work neatly with all-in-one 
> multi-object libraries without library abstractions...
>
> I attached the state of this mini-project from 2008 or so.

Thank you Claude, I'll give it a try :)

>
>
> Claude
>
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