[PD-dev] loading classes: search by directory rather than extension

[IOhannes zmölnig]

Am 25. September 2015 01:45:28 MESZ, schrieb Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>:
>
>I don't have a problem with a "fixed directory" (and I think good 
>defaults in general are better than making a user specify or configure 
>everything from scratch) but I always thought the path should be 
>~/.config/pd-externals or ~/.local/pd-externals - something out of the 
>way rather than clogging up the user's home directory.
>

My thinking, exactly.

>I'm sure we'll update deken to support whatever the new method of 
>externals resolution becomes.
>


Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding: deken does not know anything about pd's paths. Instead it asks pd for a list of "default" paths at startup and uses the first writeable one.

If pd ever changes its default user-installed search path, deken will automatically pick the new one(s)


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