[PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches

[Yves Degoyon]

Marc Lavallée wrote:

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>Le 16 Septembre 2003 05:02, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
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>>Hallo,
>>
>>Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
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>>>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 could try to come up with a clever regular expression (from my web
>>devel. days) for replacing all in one go. Is it just about adding
>>"help-" back into the object sources?
>>
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>I use a perl script to remove all "help-" prefix before compiling PD, 
>because it's easier to browse the documentation without the "help-" 
>prefix. About the abstraction problem, why do abstractions needs separate 
>help patches?
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i don't really see the point here,
i've never seen any help patch for an abstraction,
still it's boring not to be able to set up your own help
patches in a separate directory
( i thought gem's people would complain ).

anyway, why changing rules ??
( well no rules, no rules is better )

cheers,
sevy

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