why is it that using standard install locations isn't encouraged (or rather, why did it move into Documents of all places?)

Imo it would be less confusing for -stdlib to load paths as well so it could be used for a specific library whether it is multi-or single-binary.
(and then if [declare] were canvas-local for libraries, and if you could load objects from multi-object libraries by using lib/object as well
that would be the best case scenario. But I understand there are technical limitations https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/630 
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1257)

-seb

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>
To: Antoine Rousseau <antoine@metalu.net>
Cc: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2021 2:42 pm
Subject: Re: [PD] Best practices for [declare]


Are "-stdpath" and "-stdlib" still absolutely necessary today? If they weren't, they could be made equivalent to "-path" and "-lib" so every choice would work.
Maybe a startup flag could then restore the original behavior, if needed.

I don't think this should be changed as there are some situations where you want to look in extra, such as when bundling externals with a custom version of Pd.
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