On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:31 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
PS: btw, hans, what is the reason for Pd-extended to install all help-files into 5.reference/<dir> instead of besides the libraries? i guess it is just for legacy reasons, but i might be wrong
i cannot speak for hans, of course, but personally i do also install all help-files into 5.reference/<library>/, so that they are visible and accessible by pd's help-browser. it seemed to me an easy way to check, what classes are delivered by a certain library.
i take the opportunity for putting a request to unify the installation of different libraries. currently, i do install everything (the .pd_linux files and the help-patches) manually, because otherwise it is very likely to mess up the extra folder or help-patches are installed in many different locations, depending on the author of the makefile. probably i am just blind or stubborn, but i haven't figured out a clean way to automatically install something compiled from pd-svn (for a few years of doing pd). if there is already a way (by using pd-extended makefiles ?) to automatically install libraries in a unified manner, please let me know.
i am very much in favor of having the help-files in 5.reference. therefore i think it would be great, if '-helppath' could be specified relative to '/install/path/of/pd/doc/5.reference'. i don't see a particular use in having to speficy the whole help path '/usr/local/lib/pd/extra/doc/5.reference/library/' for each library installed (assuming doc/5.reference is the official path, where help-files belong). if this is not the 'official' location for help-files, then let's define one (or take the one, that is official, but obviously isn't known as such).
the same goes for '-path': couldn't it read pathes relative to extra as well, since this folder seems to be the official folder to put libraries in?
my two rappen
roman
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