Frank Barknecht said this at Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:58:25 +0100:
Hallo, Adam Lindsay hat gesagt: // Adam Lindsay wrote:
If I want to, for example, add pddp help patches without overwriting the original pd help patches, I can put them in another directory, and then add that directory as another line in my .pdrc. I personally would use these -path and -helppath directives to keep the pd installation "clean" and then point to other directories for externals and their help patches.
I know of some externals, for example iemlib, that already put their help-files into subdirectories. iemlib for exampls looks in doc/5.reference/iemhelp/
Yup. I'm aware of that. That puts control in the hands of the externals developer, and not the end-user, though. This way it will also look in my/help/dir/iemhelp before doc/5.reference/iemhelp.
/usr/local/pd/doc/5.reference is a fairly obscure directory for users to have to find (especially with the /usr tree generally hidden from the Mac GUI). I'm hoping to allow for easier installation of externals this way.
adam