On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 14:39 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 13:08 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > > On 2015-06-23 11:06, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > set ::deken::installpath $env(USERPROFILE) > > > > > > makes deken download to the correct path in W7. Can't test in Windows XP > > > > are you sure? > > i would expect that to install to "%AppData%" rather than "%AppData%\Pd". > > Now, that you mention it, I wonder about it, too, but it really does > download to "%AppData%\Pd". Anyway, it only works on Windows (probably > not even on Windows XP). It's definitely not the solution. > > > but probably the best solution would be to check all paths in > > ::sys_staticpath and use the first one that is writeable. > > What is the origin of ::sys_staticpath? Shouldn't normally the order be > local first, system last? If the order of ::sys_staticpath would be > "correct", it'd work on Windows XP _and_ Windows 7, right?
On Linux, the order seems to be local first, system last: ::pdwindow::post "$::sys_staticpath\n" /home/roman/pd-externals /usr/local/lib/pd-externals /usr/local/lib/pd/extra I guess if we have that on Windows, too, things should work fine. Roman _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
