[PD-dev] loading classes: search by directory rather than extension
IOhannes zmölnig
zmoelnig at iem.at
Fri Sep 25 09:26:03 CEST 2015
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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