On 17/05/2016 10:46, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2016-05-17 09:59, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
~/.local/lib/pd/extra/ ~/pd-externals /usr/local/lib/pd-externals
... in that order. We can consider ~/pd-externals to be obsolete.
I know the discussion in mostly about externals, but personally I also have a bunch of home-made abstractions (and a couple of gui plugins) I always like to have in my Pd search path and ~/pd-externals/ is nice because: a) it's "portable" when I back-up my home directory b) it's (mostly) independent of Pd versions...
But, because this is a specific use case for my set-up/machine
hmm,
- how does your setup break with the new behavious?
and to answer you r specific questions:
Actually they weren't questions... just considerations :)
a) ~/.local/lib/pd/extra is in your home directory as well, so how is it less *portable*? b) i don't see anything version specific in the new behaviour.
Yes that's perfectly fine-
i can only see two possible issues: a) you only backup "visible" folders in your home-directory, so you would miss ~/.local/lib/pd/extra
Not an issue for me. I use (g)rsync annd I do filter out a several 'dot-dirs' but not systematically (i.e. they are explicitly listed in a file which is used by rsync as an ignore list)
the easiest fix for this is to just remove ~/pd-externals entirely from the built-in search paths and add a BIG UPGRADING NOTE that mentions the symlinks (and/or "adding -path").
Yes, I mean eventually it's just a matter of knowing it. After all one can customise the Pd search path and have is serch in ~/pd-myminipony if it works for them :)