Roman Haefeli wrote:
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 think the help-browser is a very weak excuse.
i totally agree, that one should group all the help-patches belonging to a library together. i don't agree that the binaries and the help-patches should be kept in different places.
this can be done with plain Pd: it will automatically search the help-patches for objects coming from a library next to the binary. so if you have a Gem.pd_linux in extra/Gem/, then Pd will search for the help-patch of Gem's [pix_kaleidoscope] ("pix_kaleidoscope-help.pd") in extra/Gem/
the entire library can thus be distributed in one directory which you just drop into extra/, which is think is a very strong point.
the only remaining thing is the help-browser. it should probably be fixed to also offer the possibility to search extra/ and everybody would be happy.
fmga.dsr IOhannes
(btw, i never came to love the help-browser as it is so restrictive in what it allows me to see)