[PD] deken-plugin & portability

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 07:21:29 CEST 2015


>  But I still have to get it building on OSX.

Does it mean you already have it for windows?

> Will the pd-extended package be versioned as well?

I don't get it, is the "versioned" the "rolling package release" or the
"standard release"?

cheers








2015-10-14 13:02 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at
>:

> The GUI port I'm working on for Pd-l2ork should essentially replace
> Pd-extended.  But I still have to get it building on OSX.
>
> There will be some inconveniences:
> * I'm not porting Toxy.  (But Pd Vanilla broke support for it anyway.)
> * Aside from some key GUI externals, I'm only going to port GUI externals
> "a la carte".  That is, if your patches depend on it and it would be
> burdensome
> to find a workaround, I'll go ahead and (try to) port it.
>
> But in general, all the other externals that ship with Pd-extended should
> work
> just fine (and do work atm in Pd-l2ork).
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:22 AM, "rolfm at dds.nl" <rolfm at dds.nl>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> it looks like the future of pd-extended is going to be 'deken'.
> what to do then about portability?
>
> 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.
>
> 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?).
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> ?
> rolf
>
>
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