Packaging system (WAS Re: [PD] Pd standalone instruments ... )

[Alexandre Quessy]

By the way, the PEAR packaging system is very good for handling
versions and dependencies of several files. It works on several OS
(mac/win/*nix) and there is a GUI to make the packages.

I tought about using that for creating PD packages (externals and
abstractions), but then, we thought that PEAR needs PHP, which is not
installed by default on Win32 nor on most Linux distros. We could
write our own packaing system. It must be about 1000 lines of code. It
could be in Python. I think that would help a lot the community to get
organized. I"d be volunteer to work (in a team) on it if I was sure
the community (and Miller) would accept it.

Also, I know there exist such package managers that could be used for
that. Maybe not APT : there are some that are more portable. Marc
Lavallée told about about one one day, but I forgot which.

This thread should be switched to the pd-dev list now...

aalex



On 8/7/06, Alexandre Quessy <listes at sourcelibre.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/06, matthew jones <mj at isvr.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > A double-clickable jar-style format would be good to do so that you can
> > > include more than one file.
> >
> > I second that!  Distribution of patches which include other patches,
> > specific abstractions and externals would be peasy and clean with some kind
> > of packaged format like that.  Then even if these abstractions etc were
> > already installed on the user's machine the patch would look for anything
> > required within this packaged file first... no longer any [scale] confusions
> > or namespace issues!  Oh, but then externals are platform dependent, so....
> > hmm patches become dependent too.  Right... maybe not the optimal solution
> > then?
>
>
> Very good idea !!
> It could be a ZIP file with a XML file, patches and objects in it. The
> XML file describes the role of each file in the bundles. Therefore,
> one could wrap externals for, let say, Windose, Mack and Linux, and
> write the ".pdrc" in the xml file. If the externals are missing for
> the current OS, well, it doesn't work and that's it ! An example of
> such a XML file in a TAR.GZ package is the package system of PEAR, the
> PHP classes repository. See
> http://www.php-editors.com/pear_manual/developers.packagedef.html
>
> Maybe that's overkill though, but it would kind of compete with Max's VSTs. :-P
>
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