<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><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="">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=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, the cross platform issue will be fixed in time. Thanks for debugging!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:22 AM, <a href="mailto:rolfm@dds.nl" class="">rolfm@dds.nl</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">it looks like the future of pd-extended is going to be 'deken'.<br class="">what to do then about portability?<br class=""><br class="">i make patches for people who don't know a lot about programming.<br class="">plus they are on Mac, i'm on Windows.<br class="">one time downloading the right version of Pdext is enough;<br class="">i can give them my patches and they just run them.<br class="">when i make changes, new features: there's no hassle for them.<br class=""><br class="">using Vanilla & deken is something else.<br class="">declaring a library in the patch is not enough.<br class="">including the library in the patch-package works only on the same type of OS;<br class="">Windows & Windows, Mac & Mac, (Linux & Linux?).<br class=""><br class="">one method could be a deken-connected feature to automatically download a declared lib when it's not present.<br class="">what about updates or changes in a lib in that case?<br class=""><br class="">the organisation of pd-ext somehow included a kind of gate-keeping, which resulted in a stable Pd-system.<br class="">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 class="">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 class=""><br class="">?<br class="">rolf<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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