yeah. this is a concern, as Ive seen past posts here, with errors related to using customised mother patches.
the issue is , I don’t want to load the mother patch, only then to have to unload it because its the wrong version… but I guess, given a pure data patch (mother.pd) is just plain text, I can easily search it for a version tag… say in a comment.
also I think we could version the mother patch (=protocol) separately from the mother host, so that we only update the motherpd version, if something is changed in it that we know is means ‘custom mother.pd’ need reviewing… which I think is not often the case.
there is a slight issue, how to notify the user, that his custom mother.pd has been ignored?
I guess we could try to find a way to flash a message on the display… but that’s going to be a bit annoying.
(hmm, we could then move the mother.pd, to mother.pd.old, so its only displayed once)