[PD-dev] Windows installer for Pd

[Roman Haefeli]

Since the transition from Pd-extended to 'Pd-deken'  is a currently
discussed topic, I try again.

I know some Pd users on Windows and I would like to help them with the
transition from Pd-extended to Pd-vanilla. It seems for them Pd coming
as zip is already a culprit when they're used to Pd-extended doing the
whole setup automatically. Manually setting up file associations and
start menus is a lot of work that they think (and I do so as well)
should be automated. We treat other platforms with a lot of care (it
seems you can get Pure Data as FreeBSD port) and I think Pd on Windows
deserves the same amount of care. 

I tried to do all the work and would welcome some feedback.

Roman



On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 15:20 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Hey all
> 
> In order to make Pd as accessible as possible also to casual Pd users on
> Windows, I think it should come as an installer (as other software does
> as well). That's one of the things I think Pd-extended did right.
> 
> What's the stance about it from Miller and other people?
> 
> I just went ahead and tried to do it myself. Please check:
> http://www.netpd.org/~roman/tmp/nsis_installer/
> 
> It's based on the NSIS scripting language and compiler. My silent hope
> is that the reason for Pd currently being delivered as zip is simply
> laziness, and that you, Miller, would be willing to adopt the script.
> I'd welcome any feedback.
> 
> Roman
>  
> 

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