Frank Barknecht wrote:
I think it's at least a bit annoying that Gem sets a hardcoded help-path prefix to "Gem" and doesn't use the objnam-help.pd pattern.
afair, this has been removed from Gem.
I would much prefer it if Gem would behave like almost every other external/abstraction collection as this wouldn't require the special handling of Gem help files anymore. Currently some files in extra/Gem are abstractions (which have their "*-help.pd" files) other files are real help files for binary objects, but don't have a -help.pd suffix and it's all a bit, well, confusing, to say the least. Oki, I'm used to it over the years, but for a newcomer it surely is hard to follow.
afaik, your confusing setup is due to leftovers from old installations. a fresh "make install" of Gem should do:
- create extra/Gem/
- put Gem.pd_linux into extra/Gem/
- put all help-files (with "-help" suffix) into extra/Gem/
- put all abstractions into extra/Gem/
- put all help-files for abstractions (absname with "-help" suffix) into
extra/Gem/
- put the examples/ folder into doc/gem/
if it doesn't do so, please file a bug-report. one could argue that the examples/ should go into extra/Gem/examples/
mfga.sd IOhannes