Also, I like that this simple, yet elegant approach does not need to remove or 
override the explicit -path or -lib flags at all. I'm not sure why we didn't 
think of it when I wrote the initial PR a year ago.

> On Sep 11, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yeah. I find "you need to tell PD where to look" make sense, but adding "and 
> HOW it needs to look" becomes the issue.
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Julian Brooks <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> +1
>> You only understand how non-intuitive current [declare] is once you've 
>> attempted to describe it simply to a roomful of learners. 
>> Not saying current situation isn't a huge improvement over where we were 
>> umpteen years ago but if there's the option to make it even simpler & more 
>> straightforward plus portable - yes please.
>> 
>> J.
>> 
>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 11:42, Dan Wilcox <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Actually, that's not a bad idea at the expense of a little more searching. 
>> [declare] then behaves more like the lua loader which searches for both 
>> binary and script modules, which I find relatively easy to use. I don't 
>> think this would break existing patches and would also honor the relative 
>> path restrictions for self contained projects, where specifying a relative 
>> path starting with ./ or ../ only searches locally.
>> 
>>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:42:00 +0200
>>> From: Antoine Rousseau <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> To: pd-dev <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] declare (again)
>>> Message-ID:
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>>>> 
>>>> relatively easy code change
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> ...  so I propose step 2 as PR #440 !
>>> 
>>> cheers

--------
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