[PD] [Bulk] Extending Vanilla (was Cyclone help patches & issue list)

[András Murányi]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Fred Jan Kraan <fjkraan at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2014-12-20 19:09, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > On 12/18/2014 10:13 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> >> If there is a cross-platform repository system out there that is
> well-tested and built to be _more_ secure than apt (i.e., defense against
> replay attacks in the original design), perhaps it could be leveraged.
> >> Unfortunately I don't know anything about binary repo systems, other
> than Debian's.
> >> -Jonathan
> >>
> >>      On Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:04 PM, Fred Jan Kraan <
> fjkraan at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>  On 2014-12-18 20:34, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> >>> On 12/18/2014 08:16 PM, Samuel Burt wrote:
> >>>> 1. Opening a patch with [import cyclone] would automatically download
> the
> >>>
> >>> i *strongly* oppose to anything that automatically connects to the
> >>> internet and fetches or submits data.
> >>
> >> And the Pd-community currently does not have the resources to build
> >> something that is similar or more advanced than the Debian distribution
> >> system and preferably be cross platform.
> >
> >
> > so why not use apt?
> >
> > i mean, we could build on top of apt to do something "more" cross
> platform.
> > Debian (and thus apt) already handles multiple architectures and
> > "operating systems" (well: kernels), so we just need a few others archs:
> > - w32-i386
> > - w32-amd64
> > - osx-i386
> > - osx-amd64
> >
> > this would of course mean porting (parts of) apt to w32/osx (and i have
> > no clue how much work *that* means)
>
> Porting apt would indeed solve the Pd-distribution problem, and maybe
> for more cross-platform packages.
>
> For MacOSX, the Fink package is based on Debian tools
> (http://www.finkproject.org/). So that leaves Windows.
>
> From the distant past I remember Inno Setup is free and usable
> (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). As long as there is no native
> apt for Windows that could do...
>
> Somehow, it looks a bit less abstract now :-).
> >
> > fgmrds
> > IOhannes
> >
> Greetings,
>
> Fred Jan
>
>
>
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/windows-get/
https://chocolatey.org/
http://dev.tranquil.it/wiki/WAPT_-_apt-get_pour_Windows
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András
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