[L2Ork-dev] json?

[Marc Lavallée]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for the precisions.

I feel like a Pd n00b again; so basically nothing really changed, and 
there's good reasons.

So I'll create a carefully crafted $HOME/.pdsettings

Marc

Le 21-01-24 à 11 h 22, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
>> There's 96 items in /usr/lib/pd/extra (most of them are folders, some
> are symlinks), so to get access to all installed libraries I would have
> to add as many entries into Pd paths dialog?
>
> 1. If you want to be able to load those libraries using [declare],
> just make sure you have /usr/lib/pd/extra in the startup path.
>
> 2. If you want to be able to load those libraries as
> [libname/objname]-- which I would recommend as good practice-- do the
> same as step 1.
>
> 3. If you really want to load every single library in
> /usr/lib/pd/extra automatically at startup, then you absolutely must
> add every one of those paths and libs in the way you've stated. That's
> a really bad practice-- it increases startup time for no gain, and
> probably creates all kinds of namespace clashes depending on the
> startup order you specified. (You're also betting that none of those
> externals have a crasher or memory error in the setup routine-- as
> someone who has tried to automate testing for Pd externals over the
> years I certainly wouldn't take that bet.)
>
> -Jonathan
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