To be fair, Deken puts things in ~/pd-externals because it was there and working already without requiring *yet another patch*. Having a base place to install externals fixes the need to install directly to extra on platforms where that doesn’t make sense aka within OSX app bundles.
-------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > On Sep 24, 2015, at 1:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > here are a couple more (perhaps more minor) ones: > Searching a fixed directory like "~/pd-externals" is a rotten idea - I > don't know why I ever accepted it as an idea. And now the "deken" engine > puts patches there!
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