[PD] Preferred/best practice for loading external objects

[Winfried Ritsch]

Hello,

Deken is really great, but spams my linux home, everytime I load an external.

I suggest since it is now official in vanilla, we should refine now were to 
store/load externals in linux/debian for future compatibility.

I know it is not deken, but Pd which delivers the paths, but on Standard Linux 
system which respects 

 https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

it should go under .local/share/puredata   or .local/lib/pd/ or for old style 
.pd/ but not on $(Home)/pd-<something>.

So two solution: 

a) Deken should not take just pathes from pd but try preferred ones and add 
pathes to pd on startup

b) Pd suggest as first writeable pathes among others non user-writeable:
  /var/lib/pd        (group puredata set)
  /usr/local/share/pd,  (group puredata set)
  $(HOME)/.local/lib/pd
  $(HOME)/pd-external 

and deken decides: if the parent dir is writeable it create it and uses it.

so if no ./local it would not take it, but the next suggestion and if in the 
puredata group which can write to /var/lib/pd take this or

c) deken at least ask where to write it

mfG
 Winfried

Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016, 13:30:56 schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig:
> On 2016-05-04 10:56, Antonio Roberts wrote:
> > Now that Pd vanilla + deken is the preferred way to have a
> > Pd-Extended-like experience I was just wondering if there are any best
> > practices or preferred way for loading objects from externals.
> > 
> > Should we reference the external i.e. [mrpeach/binfile] or just load
> > it in our startup path and use [binfile]. The former has the advantage
> > of giving a hint to what externals are needed but results in long
> > objects.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> *my* suggsetion is to use [declare]
> 
> fgamsdrt
> IOhannes

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