[PD-dev] Pd-Extended help path

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Which version are you using?  I am assuming that you are talking  
about 0.40.2, which is very rough.  The idea for the next step is to  
include the help files in the libdir (i.e. inside extra/zexy/) so  
that it is a self-contained (#2 you mention below).  This relies on  
have the metadata parsing working and having a help menu built with  
that data.

Otherwise you wouldn't be able to browse the help files in the Help  
Browser.  A possible temporary workaround would be to make the Help  
Browser browse help files in "extra".

So I think that yes, #2 should happen, but the rest needs to follow  
in the same release or it won't make much sense.

.hc

On Feb 24, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

> Hallo!
>
> ATM the help path system does not work for Pd-Extended (at least on  
> linux).
> All the helpfiles are installed in /5.reference/externalname, but pd
> automatically searches in extra/externalname.
>
> So there are 2 possibilities to fix this:
>
> 1) we also have to add all /5.reference/externalname in  
> libdir.pd_linux
> to the help path
>
> 2) why don't we install all the helpfiles simply in extra/ 
> externalname ?
> Then all this would be no problem and I also find it much clearer this
> way ...
>
>
> So please anyone feel free to comment on this - then I will  
> implement it.
>
> LG
> Georg
>
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