On 2016-05-17 09:59, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> ~/.local/lib/pd/extra/ >> ~/pd-externals >> /usr/local/lib/pd-externals >> >> ... in that order. We can consider ~/pd-externals to be obsolete. > > I know the discussion in mostly about externals, but personally I also > have a bunch of home-made abstractions (and a couple of gui plugins) I > always like to have in my Pd search path and ~/pd-externals/ is nice > because: > a) it's "portable" when I back-up my home directory > b) it's (mostly) independent of Pd versions... > > But, because this is a specific use case for my set-up/machine
hmm, 0) how does your setup break with the new behavious? and to answer you r specific questions: a) ~/.local/lib/pd/extra is in your home directory as well, so how is it less *portable*? b) i don't see anything version specific in the new behaviour. i can only see two possible issues: a) you only backup "visible" folders in your home-directory, so you would miss ~/.local/lib/pd/extra b) your olde versions of Pd would not know about ~/.local/lib/pd/extra and only search in ~/pd-externals; so putting externals into the new path would be "incompatible" with loading them from old Pd's. a simple fix for (b) is to keep your externals in ~/.local/... and symlink ~/.local/lib/pd/extra to ~/pd-externals a simple for for (a) is to do the reverse (keep your externals in ~/pd-externals and make ~/.local/lib/pd/extra a symlink to this place); this would also fix (b), but for aesthetic reasons i dislike it a bit more :-) the drawback with this is, that a Pd-version that looks for externals in both places, will find them multiple times (which will give ugly error messages on the console). the easiest fix for this is to just remove ~/pd-externals entirely from the built-in search paths and add a BIG UPGRADING NOTE that mentions the symlinks (and/or "adding -path"). fgmasdr IOhannes
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