[PD-dev] CVS addition: -helppath

Adam Lindsay atl at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Thu Feb 20 14:41:46 CET 2003


Having gone for a full 12 hours without feedback (and having slept on
it), I checked in the below-mentioned changes to devel_0_36. It touches
g_editor, s_main, s_path, and m_pd.h. Testing and feedback welcomed.

adam


Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:22:21 +0000:

>Hello folks,
>
>I have a proposed addition to CVS that I'm a little nervous about adding
>without consulting others first. I did a little cut-modify-and-paste of
>some existing functions, and I have a first pass on code that allows one
>to modify the help search path. It's not pretty or well-tested, but I
>hope some will agree that's what CVS is for...
>
>The usage is pretty straightforward:
>   -helppath <path> -- add to help file search path
>
>It works in the same order that you might expect from the -path command-
>line option (since it is basically a simplified version of the same
>search function).
>
>Some thoughts:
>1) It's on Miller's to-do list in notes.txt. Might be a good thing to get
>to it now; might be a bad thing to do it the "wrong" way.
>2) The code is definitely a hack. It's not even a good hack.
>3) I would *really* like this functionality to be in at least one version
>of Pd... IMHO, it would *really* help the usability, especially on
>MacOSX, so that there's a unified place for newbies to install externals
>from the Finder. (e.g., /Library/Pd/externals and /Library/Pd/help, which
>could be over-ridden by stuff in ~/Library/Pd ) 
>
>I haven't checked anything in, yet, but the code is ready to go.
>
>Cheers,
>adam
>
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