Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] F L T K

I agree but the manual should point users to resources for these plugins.

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024, 11:46 Eduardo Moguillansky <
[email protected]> wrote:

> If I may chime in, I would personally recommend that the manual pages for
> opcodes provided by third-party plugins be removed from the manual. Their
> presence generates false expectations and gives the impression of csound
> not being maintained, which is of course not true.
>
> Other systems, like pd or supercollider follow this policy: each plugin
> provides help pages for their externals/ugens and it is left to the front
> ends to collect those into a usable help system. For plugins installable
> via risset this is actually the case and csoundqt is aware of those manual
> pages.
>
> Eduardo
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 5:27 PM Menno Knevel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> are the plugins from https://github.com/csound/plugins the 3rd party
>> plugins?
>>
>> For the p5glove for example, the text is:
>> 'Plugin opcode in p5g. This opcode is part of the plugin repository and
>> has to be installed separately. The plugin repository can be found here:
>> https://github.com/csound/plugins'
>>
>> we (I) could change the text to:
>> 'Plugin opcode in p5g. This opcode is part of a 3rd party plugin
>> repository and has to be installed separately. It may be that this plugin
>> opcode is not maintained or will not install on  all platforms. The plugin
>> repository can be found here: https://github.com/csound/plugins'
>>
>