[PD] deken-plugin & portability

[Dan Wilcox]

Well, not specifically me as I haven’t contributed code to deken. Versions are currently handled by the filename format: https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package <https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package>

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Dan Wilcox
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> On Oct 14, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi Dan,
>      How do you handle versioning?
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> On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 3:18 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Also, the cross platform issue will be fixed in time. Thanks for debugging!
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> Dan Wilcox
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>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:22 AM, rolfm at dds.nl <mailto:rolfm at dds.nl> wrote:
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>> it looks like the future of pd-extended is going to be 'deken'.
>> what to do then about portability?
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>> i make patches for people who don't know a lot about programming.
>> plus they are on Mac, i'm on Windows.
>> one time downloading the right version of Pdext is enough;
>> i can give them my patches and they just run them.
>> when i make changes, new features: there's no hassle for them.
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>> using Vanilla & deken is something else.
>> declaring a library in the patch is not enough.
>> including the library in the patch-package works only on the same type of OS;
>> Windows & Windows, Mac & Mac, (Linux & Linux?).
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>> one method could be a deken-connected feature to automatically download a declared lib when it's not present.
>> what about updates or changes in a lib in that case?
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>> the organisation of pd-ext somehow included a kind of gate-keeping, which resulted in a stable Pd-system.
>> 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.
>> 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.
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>> ?
>> rolf
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