I'm also very enthusiast with the new version to come!
One thing (among many others!) makes me very happy: the new behavior of [declare -path]. Pd now finds any declared library, wherever the user chose to place it, provided the location (of the library directory) is either relative, standard, or declared in preferences. I think this is the way to build portable patches and abstractions.
I would like to propose some steps further:
- 1: I think we should now discourage patch builders from using -stdpath or -stdlib, as it would restrain the portability of their patches; this is only a matter of rewriting (one more time...) the declare help patch.
- 2: why not introducing a new [declare] functionality, which would allow to avoid the flag (-path -lib -stdpath -stdlib) and cumulate -lib and -path declarations. So we would have for instance: [declare zexy iemlib] instead of [declare -path zexy -lib zexy -path iemlib -lib iemlib] This would in some way resuscitate the old [import] from pd-extended. It seems it's a relatively easy code change, so it's more a matter of decision.
It seems to me that the community would benefit from adopting rapidly a new unified way to declare any library, whether binary or abstraction.
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