I'm sure we'll update deken to support whatever the new method of externals resolution becomes.
Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding: deken does not know anything about pd's paths. Instead it asks pd for a list of "default" paths at startup and uses the first writeable one.
If pd ever changes its default user-installed search path, deken will automatically pick the new one(s)
Aha - I shold have looked nstead of assuming.
I think the best "default" default would be to put things in ~/pd/extra, assuming there's no problem writing to that (and, I suppose, assuming it isn't shared among multiple users of the same machine).
I'd like to get a better understanding of all this n part because I'd like to incorporate deken into Pd vanilla assuming its developers are cool with that.
cheers M