<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Well, not specifically me as I haven’t contributed code to deken. Versions are currently handled by the filename format: <a href="https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package" class="">https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 14, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" class="">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_14244" class="">Hi Dan,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_14243" class=""> How do you handle versioning?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_14163" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_14163" dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class=""> On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 3:18 PM, Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" class="">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""> </font> </div> <br class=""><br class=""> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3353799553" class=""><div class="">That’s why one idea with deken is to install an “extended” meta package which installs most (if not all) of the libs that came with pd-extended. I don’t think it’s too hard to ask a user to open the plugin and install a single package.<div class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"></div><div class="yiv3353799553">Also, the cross platform issue will be fixed in time. Thanks for debugging!</div><div class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><div class="yiv3353799553">
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<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><div class="yiv3353799553"><blockquote class="yiv3353799553" type="cite"><div class="yiv3353799553yqt7964720353" id="yiv3353799553yqtfd99468"><div class="yiv3353799553">On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:22 AM, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3353799553" ymailto="mailto:rolfm@dds.nl" target="_blank" href="mailto:rolfm@dds.nl">rolfm@dds.nl</a> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="yiv3353799553"><div class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">it looks like the future of pd-extended is going to be 'deken'.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">what to do then about portability?<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">i make patches for people who don't know a lot about programming.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">plus they are on Mac, i'm on Windows.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">one time downloading the right version of Pdext is enough;<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">i can give them my patches and they just run them.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">when i make changes, new features: there's no hassle for them.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">using Vanilla & deken is something else.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">declaring a library in the patch is not enough.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">including the library in the patch-package works only on the same type of OS;<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">Windows & Windows, Mac & Mac, (Linux & Linux?).<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">one method could be a deken-connected feature to automatically download a declared lib when it's not present.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">what about updates or changes in a lib in that case?<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">the organisation of pd-ext somehow included a kind of gate-keeping, which resulted in a stable Pd-system.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">i'm still using Pdext 42.5 and the included libs a lot (because of the old machines in my installations). the same libs are functional in Pdext 43.4.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">so one could argue that there's no great need for a portability design. just download everything that's necessary (and available) and it will work for quite some time.<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"><br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">?<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553">rolf<br clear="none" class="yiv3353799553"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="yiv3353799553yqt7964720353" id="yiv3353799553yqtfd67661">
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