Pardon my jumping in here, but I think David was talking about abstractions, and not externs. What you suggest, IMHO, is fine for being able to keep extern makefiles and source code grouped together, but I don't see how it would help for the case where you have a hundred or so abstractions.
FWIW, I too, would like what David suggests. It is quite easy to quickly have many dozens of abstractions, and a pain to keep adding to -path everytime the abstractions are regrouped into different directories for organization.
Larry Troxler
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Miller Puckette wrote:
Actually, I'm planning to do something simpler, which is simply to look, for example, not only for files named "fiddle~.pd_linux" but also "fiddle~/fiddle~.pd_linux". In the meantime I'm just linking (linux) or copying (NT) the externs to the parent directory as a stopgap...
cheers Miller
P.S. my incoming mail was broken for a few hours yesterday, but I think I got all the Pd list stuff OK...
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:54:26PM -0400, David McCallum wrote:
Is there anyway to make the -path flag include subdirs within thespecified path(s)? I categorise my abstractions in separate dirs, and don't want to have to specify a new -path dir every time I've created a new abstraction.
If this feature isn't available... then count it in for the Pdwishlist.
David McCallum
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