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:
- we also have to add all /5.reference/externalname in
libdir.pd_linux to the help path
- 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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