Re: deken and Pd search path

IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:07:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
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On 9/12/24 15:17, cyrille henry wrote:
> hello,
> 
> With default path, or using the -noprefs starting option, Pd is not 
> looking for externals where deken install them.
> I.E :
> if I install pmppd with deken, start pd -noprefs, Pd can't find the pmpd 
> object, even with "declare -stdpath pmpd -path pmpd" in the patch
> 
> Is this the expected behaviours?
> I think the deken path should be add to the standard search path.
> (standard search path are only : patch location, ~/.local/lib/pd/extra/, 
> ~/pd-externals/, /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/, /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/)

it's more complicated.
Pd doesn't know about deken (the latter being a pure Pd-GUI thing).
deken tries to use the default search path as the default installation 
path.

but once you started Pd and accepted the ~/Documents/Pd path as the 
default, deken will remember that selection.
you can also set whatever path you want for deken to install externals 
to, but deken will use it's own (pd-gui) preferences, and not tell the 
Pd-core about that.

this all works nicely, as long as you don't try to force some specific 
settings, e.g. via (`-noprefs`).

if you know how to use `-noprefs`, we assume you can also add "-path 
/path/to/where/i/told/deken/to/put/stuff" :-)

gfmadsr
IOhannes

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