[PD] deken (OS X)

[Samuel Burt]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm just getting around to trying out deken. I think this will be a
> wonderful way to deal with libraries. I'm having some problems in OS X,
> though.
>
> I used deken to import zexy and cyclone. The help files appear in the help
> browser, now, but none of the objects will load. I've tried [import zexy].
> I noticed ~/Library/Pd was not included in the search path. I tried adding
> it and restarting without any results. Am I doing something wrong?
>
>
> As far as I know, currently Deken installs built libs but does not add
> them to your list of libs to load at startup. You need to do that manually.
>
>
Oh, I didn't realize that I could just type the name of the library I want
to load in the startup dialog. I thought it required specific tags. I've
got that working, now! (This is probably something I used to do, years ago,
before extended spoiled me.)


> Some libraries I searched for, like moonlib, were only available in
> Windows and Linux flavors. Would it be easy for me to compile missing
> libraries and upload them to add options for OS X users? (I know very
> little about the backend of package management systems.)
>
>
> Yes. If the libraries are updated to support building via the pd-lib-builder
> Makefile <https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder>, it should be
> easy. So far, “updating” seems to only require adding the Makefile and a
> template to call a copy of pd-lib-builder. Is the reason for not having
> deken automatically add them to startup, because users like to custom-load
> these for particular projects? It would be great if deken had a tick box
> for automatically adding these libraries to the startup routine.
>
> Deken makes this easy to do, see the readme:
> https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package
>
>
When I've got some time, I will see what I can do with that. I'm not sure
which extended libraries are "must have" for me, but I did notice deken's
guide to adding libraries for platforms.

> Also, who's developing deken? Is it a team? Just one person? Are there
> plans to have lists of available libraries in the future?
>
>
> Chris M started it with input by a small group. Recently, IOhannes has
> been working away with a large number of updates, including facilitating
> package storage on puredata.info. Miller has also expressed some interest
> in incorporating Deken into vanilla in the future.
>
>
This is all very exciting news! IOhannes, you have always rocked! and
Miller, there aren't enough words to thank you for Pure Data. Keep up the
good fight! Chris M and friends, you guys had a brilliant idea. Thanks for
following through.
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