yeah, to avoid the error, the path just needs to start with a "+" character. I learned that after I opened an issue about it here https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/351 - which I guess I can close as there's nothing too weird about all this, but i'd like an answer why the "+" is needed.

So, anyway, if the thing about Gem comes from this new code, I already figured it out and am including it in Cyclone, so we're good. I'm just curious if this was supposed to be working on old Pd extended and with the Gem available in deken.

cheers