[PD-dev] CVS addition: -helppath

Adam Lindsay atl at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Thu Feb 20 19:15:33 CET 2003


Frank Barknecht said this at Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:58:25 +0100:

>Hallo,
>Adam Lindsay hat gesagt: // Adam Lindsay wrote:
>> If I want to, for example, add pddp help patches without overwriting the
>> original pd help patches, I can put them in another directory, and then
>> add that directory as another line in my .pdrc. I personally would use
>> these -path and -helppath directives to keep the pd installation "clean"
>> and then point to other directories for externals and their help patches.
>
>I know of some externals, for example iemlib, that already put their
>help-files into subdirectories. iemlib for exampls looks in
>doc/5.reference/iemhelp/

Yup. I'm aware of that. That puts control in the hands of the externals
developer, and not the end-user, though. This way it will also look in
my/help/dir/iemhelp before doc/5.reference/iemhelp. 

/usr/local/pd/doc/5.reference is a fairly obscure directory for users to
have to find (especially with the /usr tree generally hidden from the Mac
GUI). I'm hoping to allow for easier installation of externals this way.

adam
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