[PD] Best practices for [declare]

[Winfried Ritsch]

My 2 Cents:

There is one pitfall which should be mentioned, since it happened to me and 
also others I wanted to teach structured Pd programming:

  "The order of -path statements matters"

Use case:
If I want to look in specific directory first for finding objects and libraries, 
so I can handle local overwrites or so and distribute the -path statements in 
many declare objects, then I do not know from looking at the code which path 
is used first, unless I create them in the order I want (Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V on each 
object), which is an undocumented behaviour which might change in future.

mfg
   winfried

My solution only one declare objets in a subpatch from the main patch with all 
the pathes in the wanted order.
Am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021, 00:42:04 CET schrieb Peter P.:
> * Philip Stone via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at> [2021-02-25 00:31]:
> > peterparker at fastmail.com<mailto:peterparker at fastmail.com> writes:
> > >Don't know if
> > >https://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files
> > >is up to date and of help for you, but you might wanna check it and get
> > >back with more specific questions and possibly a new email subject.
> > >
> > >> I have to say that I have gotten kind of lost in the discussions about
> > >> loading and declaring external libraries. I would like >>to embrace
> > >> the current best practices, but don?t have a solid overview of the
> > >> whole. Would anybody be willing to write >>up a summary?> 
> > (Hope this is a better subject line).
> > 
> > That very page has an expired link to a Google drive tutorial which sounds
> > like just the thing I was talking about, so I’d say that it’s not up to
> > date. I’d love to see best practices for [declare] blended into it. The
> > helpfile for [declare] is good, but how’s a newbie even supposed to know
> > to use the [declare] object in the first place? I’m just asking for an
> > overview, is all.
> I find declare's help patch well written, but of course it does not cover
> everything, what is it you are looking for Phil?
> 
> 
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