[PD] New users and external path struggles

[Christof Ressi]

> whereas throwing stuff in ../extra "just works".

what do you mean by that? when I throw 'mylib' folder (containing foo.pd) into ../extra, I either have to add ../extra/mylib to the user paths OR do [declare -stdpath mylib] or always do [mylib/foo]. so ../extra (and other standard paths) are apparently *not* searched recursively when trying to load an object and behave the same as user paths. it's just with [declare] where the difference comes into play.

I'm on Windows 7. Is this different on other systems!?

 

Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2017 um 22:21 Uhr
Von: "Dan Wilcox" <danomatika at gmail.com>
An: "Miller Puckette" <msp at ucsd.edu>
Cc: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
Betreff: Re: [PD] New users and external path struggles

I think what it boils down to is that the paths in st_staticpath (Pd) are used recursively and the paths in sys_searchpath (user) are not. This means if we have an deken externals download dir, we still have to add *each* external's subdirectories to sys_searchpath since it's not recursive, whereas throwing stuff in ../extra "just works". This would be why adding something like ~/Documents/Pd to st_staticpath is so attractive because it negates needing to add each lib to the user search paths.
 
Maybe we need an option to add recursive search paths?
 

On Jul 30, 2017, at 10:00 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at[mailto:pd-list-request at lists.iem.at] wrote: 

From: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu[mailto:msp at ucsd.edu]>
Subject: Re: [PD] New users and external path struggles
Date: July 30, 2017 at 8:56:30 PM GMT+2
To: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com[mailto:porres at gmail.com]>
Cc: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at[mailto:pd-list at iem.at]>

Except perhaps in this thread I can try to explain... I always meant
"standard path" to refer to "stuff distributed with Pd", and "Path" to
be adjustible to point to libraries that are not part of the Pd distribution.
I think part of the confusion comes from different possible interpretations
of "standard path" (which, as I now realize, is badly named).  But I think
the way forward is to somehow get the "path" mechanism to do what people are
asking for.

cheers
Miller 

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