I have a user that reports my Venom Rhythm Explorer demo patch will not load for him on Win 10 running rack 2.0.6. The patch works perfectly fine for me on Win 10 with Rack 2.2.3 - The plugin was compiled on Rack 2.2.3. Is it possible that there may have been Rack bug fixes and/or API changes that…

I’m not sure this is related, but when I downloaded the demo patch, Rack cannot start without crashing. I’m on Win 11, Rack 2.2.3 . I did not capture a log file.

Here is a log file from the patch crashing Rack: log.txt (112.8 KB) Edit: I had to reupload the log file since I accidently overwrote it in my steps. I see some json lines in the stack trace, so perhaps there is a json data parsing error. The log does point out a Venom patch and Rack mismatch in…

Ouch! This is not good! Thanks for the report. So there must be a serious bug in either my Venom plugin, or else one of the other plugins in my patch. Can you tell me what line number shows you the Venom patch and Rack mismatch? I can’t find it. Also, my patch uses the Low Fat Milk module, and I…

Ah - yes. I must have created that version of the patch while my development version of Venom was installed. Not ideal, but I don’t think that should cause a problem. Also, I noted you still have the old VenomModules plugin installed from the beta release days. You probably should delete that plugi…

[image] DaveVenom: Also, I noted you still have the old VenomModules plugin installed from the beta release days. You probably should delete that plugin folder from your plugins directory - Done, but the crash still persists. You are welcome. I should have reported the crash a couple of day…

[image] k-chaffin: Done, but the crash still persists. That is to be expected. The presence of VenomModules shouldn’t cause a problem, but there is no point in keeping a dead plugin around.

Last thing, but I do not think this is important. I had created a test patch earlier this morning to play with your Harmonic Quantizer. After deleting the VenomModules folder, the patch could not find HQ until I added it from the correct plugin. So, it is good for everyone to delete that plugin, …

I did just that within my Beta release announcement. [image] Venom Modules - Beta release home stretch - submitted to library Announcements I was asked to change my slug/plugin name to Venom (drop Modules from the slug and name) I also had to remove the hidden CVMIX. I’v…

[image] DaveVenom: Is it possible that there may have been Rack bug fixes and/or API changes that could cause the plugin and/or patch to fail on Rack 2.0.6? Yes. And this is something I have pondered myself. Within a Rack major version (2.x) Andrew guarantees that plugins are backwards compa…

Can Rack module compiled on rack 2.2.3 be incompatible with Rack 2.0.6?

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DaveVenom (Dave Benham) February 25, 2023, 4:42pm 10

I did just that within my Beta release announcement.