2018-06-13 20:18 GMT-03:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>:

2. IOhannes convinced me, over time, that the "stdpath" loading mechanism used by the "extra" folder is problematic as it adds too many (sub) search paths by default and it becomes harder to tell/control what's being loaded.

hmm, I see...

The "better way" is for people to specify those externals paths directly, either with the user search paths and/or declare. There is much less ambiguity as to what's going on at the loss of "just put things in this place" ease.

But now we have a folder like ~/Documents/Pd that Pd suggests you to use, and then it creates it for you, and also creates ~/Documents/Pd/externals, and Deken puts thins in there for you... So, where I'm getting at is that this new process provides exactly that "just put things in this place" kind of ease, and therefore no loss - plus, we also have less ambiguity and avoid a problematic Ioading mechanism. In short, looks like a "win-win" situation...

cheers