[PD-dev] renaming core help files to the standard name

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed May 25 21:20:58 CEST 2005


The doc/5.reference move is complete:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? 
func=detail&atid=200001&aid=1206229&group_id=1

"cvs update" to get the properly named versions.  I am going to submit  
a request to change the extra/help-*.pd files in the SourceForge CVS  
now.

.hc

On May 20, 2005, at 9:36 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Good idea... I've updated my copy, and thanks for the 'sed' magic.
> Note also pd/extra, some of whose subdirs also have "help" files in  
> them.
>
> I'll hold off on checking the new version in until the CVS repository  
> "main"
> branch starts showing the *-help.pd names...
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:18:05PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> I would like to rename the Pd core help files in CVS so that they
>> conform to the naming convention *-help.pd.  Currently, they are in  
>> the
>> deprecated format help-*.pd.  There are two ways for this to happen:
>> add and remove the files from CVS, or put in a support request to
>> sourceforge to have them rename them in CVS.  The later option is
>> preferred because then the CVS history is preserved.
>>
>> This script will rename the files for you if you run it in pd/doc:
>>
>> #------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> for helpfile in help-*.pd ; do
>>    mv "$helpfile" "`echo $helpfile | sed
>> 's/^help\-\(.*\)\.pd$/\1-help.pd/'`"
>> done
>> #------------
>>
>> Once we agree to this, I'll put in the SourceForge support request.   
>> It
>> generally takes them less than a week to fulfill such requests.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
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