[PD] Proper method of package removal from pd.info/Deken server?

[zmoelnig at iem.at]

On 02/22/2017 09:14 PM, Derek Kwan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if there's a proper way of removing/deleting packages
> from the puredata.info/Deken server. I uploaded our latest v0.3alpha1
> Cyclone release using an older version of Deken from the Xenial repos,
> which apparently didn't upload using the directory structure of the
> newer Deken tool that creates subdirectories for library names and
> versions. I confirmed this by uploading a little test consisting of list
> abstractions I've been working on but hadn't really been planning on
> "officially releasing" yet using the newer Deken copied from the GitHub
> repo. After my little test, I deleted my test package via the
> puredata.info web interface but a day later it still appears in the Pd
> Deken library search tool, just with a dead link since it's no longer on
> the server (it was called pdklist). Since that doesn't seem like a proper
> way of removing libraries from Deken since whatever process Deken uses to
> know what libraries are on the server hasn't noticed the change, is there a
> proper way of doing this? 

a) this *is* the proper way to remove things. (there just seems to be a
bug in the deken-server that it didn't update the search-results)



> 
> Eventually, I do plan on removing the cyclone builds from Deken and

b) i'm totally unconvinced that you should remove packages at all (apart
from packages that you only uploaded in order to test deken).
i think it is a disservice to your users to remove old versions of
packages (even if they are outdated/buggy/...)


> reuploading using the newer Deken tool. I couldn't find a way of moving
> alread uploaded files into folders via the pd.info web interface but
> perhaps that's a discussion for another time (but would also be a
> solution for my eventual goal). Thanks!

go to folder view ("contents"), select the files you want to move (via
the checkboxes), click on the [Cut] button; navigate to the target
folder and click the [Paste] button.
if you only want to move a single file, the menu will offer a [cut] (and
[paste]) option in the "Actions" dropdown.




gfasdrm
IOhannes

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