[PD-dev] Pd-Extended help path

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 25, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

> Hallo!
>
>> Which version are you using?  I am assuming that you are talking   
>> about 0.40.2, which is very rough.
>
> yes!
>
>> 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.
>
> Sorry, I don't know much about the helpbrowser, but which metadata  
> do you need to parse for that ?

Part of the PDDP templates is having meta data for each help patch.   
So one example would be "category" or "keywords".

>
>> 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".
>
> and why is this a "workaround" - now you also have simply the  
> 5.reference folder in the help browser, then you would have the  
> extra folder ...

Because it's another kludgey patch fix on top a whole bunch of other  
kludgey patch fixes.   I think it's not worth spending time on  
kludges, but instead work towards a real solution.  I have no plans  
on touching the existing help browser/menu, it's just a place holder  
until we have a real solution, IMHO.

>
>> 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.
>
> Okay, I can make #2 happen (should be as easy as changing helpdir =  
> $(libpddir)/extra in Makefile.buildlayout), but I have not much  
> knowledge about the browser stuff ...

ok, the other stuff can happen later.  That distro is very raw anyway...

.hc

>
> LG
> Georg


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