[GEM-dev] shipping Gem as libdir

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 7, 2010, at 4:20 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

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>> The problem is that the manual and examples then don't show up in the
>> new help browser since that stuff is now based on libdirs.  So if the
>> 'doc' folder was added to the 'Gem' folder as 'manual' and the
>> 'examples' folder was moved to the 'Gem' folder, then the Gem  
>> standalone
>> releases would be a pretty solid libdir.
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> why does it has to be called "manual"?
> shouldn't this "manual" path be (manually) settable via the -meta  
> file?

"manual" is a pretty clear, widely used term for "long-form written  
documentation of a particular piece of project".. Why make it  
settable?  That just adds complexity for no advantage that I can see.

> and what is offered by Pd if it was indeed called "manual"?
> i suggest to add all the libdirs to the docbrowser.
> (and introduce libdir versions...)

I guess you haven't tried the Help Browser in recent Pd-extended  
builds, this is implemented, and will be folded into pd-gui-rewrite/0.43

.hc

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