--- 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really prefers the old docs, they can still find them, and we won't waste new users' time by forcing them to use outdated and unmaintained docs (until they figure out they're supposed to download a separate package for the current vanilla help patches, which nobody has to do for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
Here's the files in puredata-doc: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/puredata-doc/filelist
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