[PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches

[guenter geiger]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> So... Frank... feel like writing some fearsome regex for this?  Let's
> see what cases I can come up with:
>

Actually the point of the CVS would be that those who put code up there
maintain it. Which means the problem should solve itself.

.. yes wishful thinking ...

Guenter


> This is my format:
>
> PACKAGE:
> 	HELP FILE NAME
> 	SETHELPSYMBOL
>
> ext13:
> 	*.pd
>     	class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("*"));
>
> ggee:
> 	*.pd
> 	(no class_sethelpsymbol)
>
> maxlib:
> 	help-*.pd
> 	#ifndef MAXLIB
>      		class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("help-*.pd"));
> 	#else
>      		class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("maxlib/help-*.pd"));
> 	#endif
>
>
> unauthorized:
> 	help-*.pd
>     	class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("help-*.pd"));
>
> zexy:
> 	*.pd
> 	class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("zexy/*"));
>
>
> There are other cases, but that's just what I came up with quickly.
>
> .hc
>
>
> On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 13:55 America/New_York, Miller Puckette
> wrote:
>
> > Now why didn't I think of that?
> >
> > OK, so as not to uproot people again I'll make it search for both,
> > but let's regard "metro-help.pd", etc., as the preferred form.
> >
> > cheers
> > Miller
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:35:18PM -0400, Marc Lavalle wrote:
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> >> Le 16 Septembre 2003 12:01, vous avez écrit :
> >>> Hi Marc,
> >>>
> >>> You have to have a separate name for abstraction help patches because
> >>> (as of version 0.37) Pd looks in the directory the patch came from
> >>> for
> >>> the help window.  This allows people to "bundle" several extern
> >>> versions, plus a fallback abstraction, plus the help window, all in
> >>> one
> >>> directory for easy installation.
> >>
> >> I like to embed help, comments and even examples in my abstactions,
> >> so I don't have to provide a seperate help patch. But I understand
> >> your
> >> point. Then maybe using "-help.pd" as a suffix instead of "help-" as a
> >> prefix would be a better idea, for readability, but I guess that's
> >> totally subjective. Another solution would be to use a different
> >> extension for help patches, something like ".pdh".
> >>
> >> - --
> >> Marc
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