8 messages in at.iem.pd-devRe: [PD-dev] CVS addition: -helppath| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Adam Lindsay | Feb 19, 2003 5:21 pm | |
| Adam Lindsay | Feb 20, 2003 5:41 am | |
| Frank Barknecht | Feb 20, 2003 6:16 am | |
| guenter geiger | Feb 20, 2003 8:39 am | |
| Adam Lindsay | Feb 20, 2003 9:35 am | |
| Frank Barknecht | Feb 20, 2003 9:58 am | |
| Adam Lindsay | Feb 20, 2003 10:15 am | |
| guenter geiger | Feb 21, 2003 1:48 am |
| Subject: | Re: [PD-dev] CVS addition: -helppath | |
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| From: | Adam Lindsay (at...@comp.lancs.ac.uk) | |
| Date: | Feb 20, 2003 10:15:11 am | |
| List: | at.iem.pd-dev | |
Frank Barknecht said this at Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:58:25 +0100:
Hallo, Adam Lindsay hat gesagt: // Adam Lindsay wrote:
If I want to, for example, add pddp help patches without overwriting the original pd help patches, I can put them in another directory, and then add that directory as another line in my .pdrc. I personally would use these -path and -helppath directives to keep the pd installation "clean" and then point to other directories for externals and their help patches.
I know of some externals, for example iemlib, that already put their help-files into subdirectories. iemlib for exampls looks in doc/5.reference/iemhelp/
Yup. I'm aware of that. That puts control in the hands of the externals developer, and not the end-user, though. This way it will also look in my/help/dir/iemhelp before doc/5.reference/iemhelp.
/usr/local/pd/doc/5.reference is a fairly obscure directory for users to have to find (especially with the /usr tree generally hidden from the Mac GUI). I'm hoping to allow for easier installation of externals this way.
adam
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