[PD-dev] Pd-extended EOL?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 09:48 +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> On 01/10/15 00:25, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> > Since Pd-Extended is basically EOL at this point, maybe we should
> > discuss more formal plans on a transition to Pd-vanilla+deken.
> 
> I think the main outstanding issue is whether deken functions correctly 
> on Windows. Roman did some testing and I think there were some 
> outstanding issues but my memory is blurry.

As far as I can tell, there are no out-standing issues on Windows
regarding deken. Two things have been fixed that affected the usage of
deken:

* Some standard paths were missing so that deken wasn't found on newer
Windows' (fixed with commit 7fb6311c)

* [declare -stdpath] did not work on Windows (fixed with commit 1b7af3c)

I remember that deken on Windows did not automatically unzip the
packages, but only download them. Is that still the case? On my test
machine I installed a bunch of unix-y toos for building (git bash,
mingw, etc.) and then auto-unzipping worked, though I haven't
investigated what exactly made it work. I guess some installer came with
a unzip binary. Is that something that you would like to address?

Roman
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