[PD] libdir READMEs
Jonathan Wilkes
jancsika at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 14 17:32:36 CET 2011
----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] libdir READMEs
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> The library template requires a README.txt, LICENSE.txt, and mylib-meta.pd for
> all libraries. Pd-extended also requires this. The template Makefile enforces
> this. But there are many libraries that are not based on this template, so they
> might not have these files. People are free to do whatever they want in
> user-installed libraries, so at the very least, the search plugin should
> gracefully fail when those files don't exist.
Right-- the icon just won't be displayed in that case.
>
> .hc
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to obsolete the help-browser with my search plugin.
> I've added a clickable folder icon to each result which will open the
> containing folder with the user's default file manager. (Also, there are
> homepage links for opening the libdir directory, Miller's tutorial folder,
> and some others.)
>>
>>
>> I've also got a little info icon which I thought would be nice to
> bring up the README text file in Pd for the library of given search result. Is
> each libdir guaranteed to have a README.txt? Is it guaranteed to be named
> README.txt, or are there other names used? Barring that, I could have it open
> LIBNAME-meta.pd, and, barring that, I could just not to display the info icon.
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
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