[PD] list item picker widget - [declare] lib paths

[Dan Wilcox]

In some recent and proposed updates to declare and the loader, the movement is toward being able to load both compiled and abstraction libraries without having to use both -lib & -path, but we are not there yet:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/440 <https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/440>

In many ways, -stdpath and -stdlib is legacy but of course will most likely not be removed or explicitly deprecated unless there is a real need. It is however highly encouraged *not* to use them, ie. no longer having users manage stuff inside the macOS Pd .app bundle. In your case with netpd and bundled resources, then I imagine they are still quite useful. :)

> On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:37 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:37:19 +0100
> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com <mailto:reduzent at gmail.com>>
> To: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>>
> Subject: Re: [PD] list item picker widget - [declare] lib paths
> Message-ID: <f592ac96dd0de66fa4679b609eb2e7096e9e2864.camel at gmail.com <mailto:f592ac96dd0de66fa4679b609eb2e7096e9e2864.camel at gmail.com>>
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> Thanks for the full picture, Dan.
> 
> I guess the main point is that when Pd users go along the defaults,
> they need patches to use -path and -lib. 
> 
> Even more, -lib and -path _also_ work for stuff installed in any of the
> standard search paths like <pd-dir>/extra. Assuming that people use a
> recent version of Pd, there can be no harm in using -lib and -path.
> They cover more use cases. Thus, I'd say using -lib and -path should be
> considered the canonical way of loading libraries.
> 
> Roman

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