Am 12. Dezember 2019 18:53:35 MEZ schrieb Pierre Alexandre Tremblay tremblap@gmail.com:
Dear IOhannes
I cannot package the help files tidily in a help folder, they seem to have to share the same folder as the external. Do these need to be top level folder?
no (or yes, depending on what you mean with "top-level folder")
anyhow, the curreny behaviour is not a limitation of the pkg-format (.dek), but a decision on the Pd-side that was made decades ago.
put simple: - object-definitions (aka "externals") should be on the first-level of your library folder (eg. if the library is called *foo*, yoy'll have " foo/bar.dll", rather than "foo/externals/bar.dll"), else your users will have to jump through hoops to load your library. - help-patches must° be in the same directory as the object-definition (" foo/bar-help.pd"), else pd will not find them. - supplementary material (soundfiles, tutorials, html-documentation, passwords, ...) can go into subfolders (eg "foo/sounds/bell.aif")
this has worked well for quite some time, with simple one-object libs to libraries of several hundreds of objects.
i wouldn't advise to create a superficial sense of "tidiness" that merely creates inconsistency.
mfg.hft.fsl IOhannes
° there are ways to code around that in C, but they often create more confusion