[PD] New users and external path struggles

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Sun Jul 30 22:40:07 CEST 2017


I guess I mean nothing by than and am completely wrong. I'm thinking of the old extended behavior with libdir finding things automatically. I use *very few* externals at this point, so I shouldn't say anything more I suppose.

> On Jul 30, 2017, at 10:38 PM, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
>> 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!?

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