[Audacity-nyquist] Setting Nyquist working directory

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

There appears to be regular shifting in several aspects related to the 
Nyquist working directory.

Audacity 1.3.9 beta - the Nyquist working directory (setdir ".") is the 
modules folder.
Audacity 1.3.10 alpha - the Nyquist working directory is the Audacity 
program folder.
Audacity 1.3.10 beta - it is the modules directory again.


On Windows (XP);

Audacity 1.3.8 - the Nyquist working directory could be set by setting 
the "Start in" option in a shortcut (link) to audacity.exe (perhaps not 
the best way of setting it, but a useful and convenient method).

Audacity 1.3.9 - The Nyquist working directory is the modules directory 
irrespective of the "Start In" option.

Audacity versions 1.3.10 alpha after Nov 11 - Nyquist will again take 
its working directory from the "Start In"

Audacity 1.3.10  - back to the 1.3.9 behaviour.


This is currently undocumented and raises several problems for writing 
plug-ins that need to read/write files.


A question that follows from this:

If a plug-in needs to write data to a file so that it can be accessed at 
a later time (different session), what is the recommended location?

Given the limitations in Nyquist accessing paths (full path names work), 
and the differences between operating systems, what is the recommended 
way to access a suitable directory for writing files?
It is easy enough for "advanced" users to edit their init.lsp file, but 
not good for casual users.

Steve D