[PD] extra folder should have search priority over externals

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

2018-01-12 6:28 GMT-02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>:

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> you should simply avoid the nameclash.
>

 I agree that's just the best thing to do, but that is not an option for
cyclone.

2018-01-12 6:27 GMT-02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>:

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> no. definitely not.
> it's "common sense" to allow the user to override vanilla objects.
>

What I'm saying is Pd vanilla objects have priorities. Yes, you can
override vanilla objects, but if you have an [osc~] external in a library
and you just call [osc~] in Pd, it'll load the vanilla one. So this is my
point, that it is common sense and a very well known behaviour that vanilla
objects have priority on the search path.

But I just learned that this doesn't happen for objects in the extra
folder. Thus I'm considering it an inconsistent behaviour and in conflict
with what we normally have in the Pd world.

Now, if Pd forces a priority for vanilla objects ike [osc~], that doesn't
really prevent you from being able to override it, as you mentioned. Hence,
forcing a priority on the "extra" folder would not prevent this from
happening either. So it's not like you cannot do this otherwise it will
ruin everything. People will still be able to override it if they want. All
that changes is that it'll be consistent with the current behaviour of
Vanilla forcing a search priority for vanilla objects.

cheers
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