I think it is a design flaw that the help system doesn't make use of extensibility in the spirit of the new preference system, the extensible menus, or the metacello configurations. They all don't have external dependencies and load fine into any image. Being forced to have strong references to the HelpSystem package (with subclasses and class references) makes it impossible to just include some documentation into a package, without introducing a dependency onto the HelpSystem. This doesn't encourage me at all to provide some quick documentation (e.g. for Gofer, PetitParser, RB, OB, ...), because I would need to create separate packages. For deployment I usually use kernel images, or core images with unnecessary code unloaded (tests, examples, help system, ...). With the current setup I cannot just include some documentation into a core package without being forced to package it separately. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli www.lukas-renggli.ch