[L2Ork-dev] vanilla in Purr and Purr in vanilla compatibiity

[Albert Graef]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:58 PM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1. When loading a Vanilla patch in Purr Data, what is the optimal UX
> so that the user gets something as close as possible to Vanilla
> behavior/display with the least amount of work/knowledge?
> [...]
> Albert has a current merge request wrt #1 here:
>
> https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/merge_requests/561


That's not entirely true. Jonathan wants to address all (or most) legacy
issues we encounter when exchanging patches between Purr Data and Vanilla
in a completely (or mostly) automatic way, by keeping track of the Pd
version a (sub)patch was created with (Purr or Vanilla).

My MR is much more modest (and presumably simpler). It's about enabling
some canvas-local flags (maintained with `declare`) for some specific
global options. Currently I'm concerned solely with the "legacy-bendin" and
"save/restore zoom level" flags, which are causing me woes because at
present they can only be set globally and not locally in a patch.

So the two approaches are really different (although not completely
orthogonal), and also aimed at different audiences.

But I don't want to rehash the entire discussion here, please go to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/merge_requests/561 for more
details.

Thanks,
Albert


Just writing out these points, I'm not wondering if #2 could be solved
> with some kind of menu button that analyzes the current patch's binbuf
> and prints out a series of "compatibility errors" so that the user can
> click the link and visit the relevant object.
>
> Best,
> Jonathan
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