To be fair, Deken puts things in ~/pd-externals because it was there and working already without requiring *yet another patch*. Having a base place to install externals fixes the need to install directly to extra on platforms where that doesn’t make sense aka within OSX app bundles.

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com

On Sep 24, 2015, at 1:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

here are a couple more (perhaps more minor) ones:
Searching a fixed directory like "~/pd-externals" is a rotten idea - I
don't know why I ever accepted it as an idea. And now the "deken" engine
puts patches there!