[PD-dev] changing [declare -stdpath] behavior

[Roman Haefeli]

i am very much in favor of that change and i _don't_ care about any
backwards compatibility issues, since [declare] has been proven to be
very unreliable anyway. better to change it early, before usage of it is
widely spread.

personally i think, that your suggestion is the layout, that makes most
sense and it is intuitive to use.

roman

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:34 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On GNU/Linux and Windows, -stdpath work like this: [declare - 
> stdpath ../extra/<somedir>].  On Mac OS X, you need to omit the  
> "../", i.e. [declare -stdpath extra/<somedir>].  Since that means  
> that [declare] with -stdpath has broken behavior, I want to suggest a  
> change that would make it more intuitive but would break on all  
> platforms:
> 
> Right now, I don't see any reason why -stdpath should include the "../ 
> extra" part.  Since all externals have been included in "pd/extra" by  
> convention for a long time, it seems to me that it would make the  
> most sense to make -stdpath relative to "/path/to/pd/extra".  (I  
> remember many years ago some people using an 'externs' folder, but I  
> haven't seen/heard that in years).  This would make the above  
> [declare] like this:
> 
> [declare -stdpath <somedir>]
> 
> I think the same would apply to -stdlib:
> 
> [declare -stdlib <somedir>]
> 
> .hc
> 
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