On 05/04/2016 06:46 PM, Miller Puckette wrote: > I agree this is a problem. On my machine, selecting (for instance) > freeverb~ from the deken plug-in creates a directory > ~/pd/extra/freeverb~
the actual Pd binary you are running is ~/pd/bin/pd, right? > which would be a good place to put it except for > the fact that that is my git repo (I then have to move it or else I'd > end up publishing freeverb~ in vanilla!). > > I think deken should always query the user whether it's OK to install hmm, i'm not so fond about *always query*, this is why i turned this off... i don't even think it is a great user experience if Pd asks the user once in each session (though that's way better than asking *every* time). that's not to say that i don't agree that deken should not pollute your ~/pd/extra/ folder. but i wonder whether there is not a more elegant way to solve this issue. the first question is, whether this is really a general problem or just a very specific problem to *your* workflow (that is, most people happen to do their everyday work on the canoncial upstream source of Pd and therefore won't ever run the risk of publishing a new shiny release of Pd with an illegitimate library in extra/). if this is the case, then we could probably just add some simple blacklisting mechanism in the deken-config that excludes ~/pd/extra/ on miller puckettes eeePC. otoh, the extra/ folder of the running Pd instance is probably not a good place to install stuff too in *most* circumstances (the only reason i can think of is that someone is assembling their own Pd-bundled-with-externals). since this path is usually the very last in the list of default search paths, we could easily remove this element instead. oh, and for completeness sake: the "current" (before miller's changes today) behaviour was, that deken has a [select dir] button, where the user can change the install directory before they download/install any library (or change the directory after installing freeverb and before installing moocow). however, this is an opt-in feature. mfgards IOhannes
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