[PD] messing with help-patches

[Roman Haefeli]

hi all

bravely i tried to clean the mess i have with all the help-patches lying
in different places and came to the conclusion, that there is no obvious
way to do it right now. 
although i use pd for at least two years now, several things are still
unclear to me (and maybe to others, too):

- what is the 'offical' (non-deprecated) naming-scheme for help-patches:
help-<name>.pd, <name>-help.pd or just <name>.pd (the last seems not to
work, but i found some helppatches named after this scheme)
since pd's own helppatches are named after <name>-help.pd, i assume this
the 'official' one.

- where are they supposed to be?
i found helppatches in the following locations (i didn't place them by
myself, they all have been put there by their installers)
 * pd/extra/
 * pd/extra/<lib>/
 * pd/doc/5.reference/
 * pd/doc/5.reference/<lib>/
 * pd/doc/<lib>/
 * pd/doc/<lib>/<blablablabl>/<blablabl>/

since the helppatches cannot be reached from the helpbrowser, when they
are located in pd/extra, i'd say this is not the way to go. it's handy
to have an overview of all objects of a certain lib. also would it be
nice to have the helppatches of the libs separated from pd's own
helppatches. 

from the users point of view the following points would make life easy:

-all helppatches are named after <name>-help.pd, which makes browsing
easier
- pd's own helppatches are located in pd/doc/5.reference (as it is now)
- helppatches of the libs are located in pd/doc/5.refernece/<lib>

the only problem i see here, is that one has to add an extra -helppath
for each lib. it would be nice, if that could be avoided by searching
pd/doc/5.reference recursively.

i didn't find any documentation about this topic and i intentionally did
not search the archives, since i'd like to have this discussion come to
a final conclusion. the above can be considered just as a starting
point.

roman 






		
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