--- On Tue, 6/28/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Subject: Re: [PD-dev] packaging the pddp docs To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-dev@iem.at Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 6:27 AM
On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Mon, 6/27/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Subject: [PD-dev] packaging the pddp docs To: pd-dev@iem.at Date: Monday, June 27, 2011, 9:21 PM
Now that the core Pd docs (i.e. /usr/lib/pd/doc/*)
are
split out into a separate Debian package, I think it could make
sense to
package the PDDP docs in a kind of mirror or replacement package. Something like pddp-doc. Jonathan, in particular, I was
thinking
that since you have wanted to work on all the patches there, we could
set it up
so the pddp-doc package mirrors the whole
/usr/lib/pd/doc*
directory and patch structure, have this in SVN, git, or whatever somewhere. Then people could choose the pddp-doc package if they so
choose.
The PDDP docs I did are all for vanilla objects
(exceptions are
expr family, and the other "vanilla" extras). If
a new user clicks
"Help" on a vanilla object, it should show the revised
PDDP help
patch by default.
So instead of what you propose, please make something
like a
legacy-vanilla-help package. That way, if
someone really prefers
the old docs, they can still find them, and we won't
waste new users' time
by forcing them to use outdated and unmaintained docs
(until they figure
out they're supposed to download a separate package
for the current
vanilla help patches, which nobody has to do for any
of the external
packages).
-Jonathan
I agree that the PDDP docs are much better, that's why I want to get them out there more. Part of packaging is representing the upstream as it is and letting the user decide. So I think it makes sense to keep puredata-doc as what's included in the official tarball. As for Pd-extended, I think it should still use the PDDP docs, so like you say, showing the PDDP docs by default.
Ok.
I think that making the PDDP docs as their own package and distro will make it easier for you to get your work out to users.
.hc
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