i am very much in favor of that change and i _don't_ care about any backwards compatibility issues, since [declare] has been proven to be very unreliable anyway. better to change it early, before usage of it is widely spread.
personally i think, that your suggestion is the layout, that makes most sense and it is intuitive to use. roman On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:34 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On GNU/Linux and Windows, -stdpath work like this: [declare - > stdpath ../extra/<somedir>]. On Mac OS X, you need to omit the > "../", i.e. [declare -stdpath extra/<somedir>]. Since that means > that [declare] with -stdpath has broken behavior, I want to suggest a > change that would make it more intuitive but would break on all > platforms: > > Right now, I don't see any reason why -stdpath should include the "../ > extra" part. Since all externals have been included in "pd/extra" by > convention for a long time, it seems to me that it would make the > most sense to make -stdpath relative to "/path/to/pd/extra". (I > remember many years ago some people using an 'externs' folder, but I > haven't seen/heard that in years). This would make the above > [declare] like this: > > [declare -stdpath <somedir>] > > I think the same would apply to -stdlib: > > [declare -stdlib <somedir>] > > .hc > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three > meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, > and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. - Martin > Luther King, Jr. > > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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