On Mit, 2016-01-20 at 00:49 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 01/19/2016 11:45 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > IOhannes is correct in that "-lib" behavior hasn't changed (I just
> > tested with 0.45). Considering this, it's probably wise not to change it
> > now, although I feel more sympathy with the use case you described. I
> > don't see anything wrong with having to use [declare -stdlib zexy -lib
> > zexy] in case I want to cover both, relative to calling patch and all
> > standard paths.
> 
> so what to do now?

Considering your points[*], it should probably stay as it is.


Roman


[*]

> nevertheless here's some things to consider:
> - backward compatibility (since it seems that no known version of Pd had
> the dont-search-stdpath behaviour)
> - consistency with startup flags ("pd -lib foo" will search both the
> "-path" paths and the standard paths)
> - iictc it's fairly trivial to make it very likely that a library is
> loaded only from a patch-local directory, even if "-lib" does search the
> stdpath:
> 
>    [declare -lib byzantium2016/zexy]
> 
> while this will try to load
> "/usr/lib/pd/extra/byzantium2016/zexy/zexy.pd_linux", chances are rather
> low that this actually exists and so it will happily only load the
> türkçe zexy besides the patch.
> but of course this is rather a hack...
> 
> mgfdsr
> IOhannes
> 
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