On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
- for the first type (externals written in Pd): it seems to me that
these should be in a directory much like "extra" which would be added to the path. I think that using externals written in Pd should be as transparent as using an external written in C/C++/etc. Perhaps these should just be put in the "extra" folder like all of the compiled objects as well.
IMHO the way abstractions work should be as close as possible to the way externals work. I like to think of abstractions as a kind of external that is "written in" the PureData "language".
Oops, clarifying a bit: I mean that I second your opinion and that the abstractions ought to be in extra/ just like C/C++ externals are. To me, the purpose of multiple paths is for separating extras according to their origin: e.g. 1. the ones from the Pd installer; 2. the ones from other public origins; 3. private user-specific or project-specific extras.
But my question remains,
BTW I'd like to know how to set a help file for an abstraction that is not just the abstraction itself.
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