[PD] New users and external path struggles

[Christof Ressi]

> None will clash with the others.

that's also true for Pd vanilla!
 

Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2017 um 23:58 Uhr
Von: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
An: "Christof Ressi" <christof.ressi at gmx.at>, "Dan Wilcox" <danomatika at gmail.com>
Cc: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
Betreff: Re: [PD] New users and external path struggles

> yeah, this worked because of libdir.
 
A few details:
 
* The Pd extended libdir loader searches for a $LIBNAME-meta.pd file. If
it finds it it adds the directory containing it to the global search path.
* namespace prefixes (probably better referred to as directory prefixes) will
add the prefixed name to Pd's object creator methodspace.
 
So if you do this:
[foo/image]
[bar/image]
[/home/foo/decade_old_version/build/bin/image]
 
None will clash with the others.
 
(Of course if you have /home/foo AND /home/bar/foo in your search path
then you are right back to depending on path search order...)
 
-Jonathan