[PD-dev] saving preset pools in the parent path, rather than the abstraction path?

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
guenter geiger hat gesagt: // guenter geiger wrote:

> I mean, the externals don't use the directory they are stored in
> (/usr/lib/pd/extra or whatever) as default path. They use the
> patches directory. Generally abstractions and externals should behave
> the same IMO.

Yes, I thought so, too, one time, but this is not that easy. For
example, I use several abstractions which use other, private
abstractions in turn hidden in subdirectories or being next to the
main abstracion, or which use saved textfiles or similar things, which
I need to find somehow. The only way to find them -- so it seems to me
-- is by using the path of the abstraction itself as reference.  One
cannot know the path of the parent in advance, and it will never be
the same on different user's machines.

So I would prefer the default behaviour to stay, as it is currently,
that is, reference "." as the directory of the abstraction.

However *if* an abstraction wants to know the parent's path, this
should be made explicit, either by inlet things, or by an int/external
for this purpose as a [pwd] 

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__