[PD] detect dependencies from patch

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2021-02-26 at 10:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2/22/21 10:06 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Is it possible to detect dependencies from within a patch?
> > 
> > Often people report problems without mentioning '... couldn't
> > create'
> > errors. Also, people not so familiar with Pd don't know what
> > library a
> > certain objects belongs to and maybe also don't know how to search
> > for
> > it in "Find externals".
> > 
> > I think the ability to give proper feedback at patch loading time
> > would
> > help to address this issue.
> 
> while not giving "proper feedback", there has been a feature request
> in 
> deken to support something like this for ages
> 
> i've implemented a little prototype of how it could look like:
> <https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/84#issuecomment-786533931

Thanks for the pointer. This would address my request. Further down,  I
found this:

https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/122

From what I understand, this would somewhat diminish the need for
helping users identify missing externals when the _specified_ stuff is
installed automatically. 

Roman

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