[PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches

[David Sabine]

Hello all,

I've always been of the opinion that PD help documents should be:

a) named "help-"& objectname &".pd (actually, just objectname&".pd was fine
with me, but I enjoyed the change in 0.37)

b) never group two or more objects (such as the "help-acoustics.pd"
document)

c) always located in the doc/5.reference folder regardless of 'native' or
'external' relationship to PD

d) be accessible from within PD (i.e. a .pd document)

Would these rules simplify or complicate the problem?

Regards,
Dave Sabine



-----Original Message-----
From: pd-dev-admin at iem.at [mailto:pd-dev-admin at iem.at] On Behalf Of Miller
Puckette
Sent: September 15, 2003 10:44 PM
To: Yves Degoyon
Cc: pd-dev at iem.kug.ac.at
Subject: Re: [PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches

I tried to remove the "help-" prefix and got into severe (but stupid)
problems...  The reason they're there is so that abstractions won't try
to load themselves when you ask for help on them.  But I should have
designed
the "sethelp" feature not to prepend the name.  Now it's too complicated to
back out of that (100s of names I would break again by taking it out!)

I did fix the wording of the error message at least...
cheers
Miller