hi all
bravely i tried to clean the mess i have with all the help-patches lying in different places and came to the conclusion, that there is no obvious way to do it right now. although i use pd for at least two years now, several things are still unclear to me (and maybe to others, too):
- what is the 'offical' (non-deprecated) naming-scheme for help-patches:
help-<name>.pd, <name>-help.pd or just <name>.pd (the last seems not to work, but i found some helppatches named after this scheme) since pd's own helppatches are named after <name>-help.pd, i assume this the 'official' one.
- where are they supposed to be?
i found helppatches in the following locations (i didn't place them by myself, they all have been put there by their installers)
- pd/extra/
- pd/extra/<lib>/
- pd/doc/5.reference/
- pd/doc/5.reference/<lib>/
- pd/doc/<lib>/
- pd/doc/<lib>/<blablablabl>/<blablabl>/
since the helppatches cannot be reached from the helpbrowser, when they are located in pd/extra, i'd say this is not the way to go. it's handy to have an overview of all objects of a certain lib. also would it be nice to have the helppatches of the libs separated from pd's own helppatches.
from the users point of view the following points would make life easy:
-all helppatches are named after <name>-help.pd, which makes browsing easier
- pd's own helppatches are located in pd/doc/5.reference (as it is now)
- helppatches of the libs are located in pd/doc/5.refernece/<lib>
the only problem i see here, is that one has to add an extra -helppath for each lib. it would be nice, if that could be avoided by searching pd/doc/5.reference recursively.
i didn't find any documentation about this topic and i intentionally did not search the archives, since i'd like to have this discussion come to a final conclusion. the above can be considered just as a starting point.
roman
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