[PD-dev] declare (again)

[Dan Wilcox]

Yeah. I find "you need to tell PD where to look" make sense, but adding "and HOW it needs to look" becomes the issue.

> On Sep 11, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Julian Brooks <jbeezez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1
> You only understand how non-intuitive current [declare] is once you've attempted to describe it simply to a roomful of learners. 
> Not saying current situation isn't a huge improvement over where we were umpteen years ago but if there's the option to make it even simpler & more straightforward plus portable - yes please.
> 
> J.
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 11:42, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com <mailto:danomatika at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Actually, that's not a bad idea at the expense of a little more searching. [declare] then behaves more like the lua loader which searches for both binary and script modules, which I find relatively easy to use. I don't think this would break existing patches and would also honor the relative path restrictions for self contained projects, where specifying a relative path starting with ./ or ../ only searches locally.
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:42:00 +0200
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>>> 
>>> relatively easy code change
>>> 
>> 
>> ...  so I propose step 2 as PR #440 !
>> 
>> cheers

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