[PD] a barrel of fun: deken v0.7.1

[Christof Ressi]

Hooray! I will test when I upload my next deken packages (= in a couple 
of days).

On 03.03.2021 22:30, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> hi
>
> i'd like to announce the release of deken-v0.7.1
>
>   https://github.com/pure-data/deken/releases/v0.7.1
>
> the GUI-plugin can be installed via deken.
> just go to "Help -> Find externals" and enter
> "deken-plugin" as the search string.
>
> this is the version i'd like to get into the next Pd release as the 
> standard "find externals" implementation.
> so please test :-)
>
>
> what's new?
>
> deken-plugin ("Find externals" within Pd)
> =========================================
>
> - decide whether you want to search of libraries, objects or both
> - select multiple packages (with right-click) and download/install 
> them at once
> - install packages from files
> - library sorting has improved (newer libraries sort before older 
> libraries, rather than reversed-alphabetically)
> - (optional) drag'n'drop package files onto the dialog to install them
> - callback to allow Pd to search for uncreatable objects (dekenception)
> - better support for packages with externals that don't do any number 
> processing
> - optionally keep package files after downloading them
> - improve SHA256 verification handling
>
> - introduce @PD_PATH@ placeholder for the path the the current 
> Pd-instance, so you can set the installation directory to 
> @PD_PATH@/extra and installations won't interfere with each other.
> - (optional) SHA256 verification
> - fix close-window shortcut
>
> - lots more of fixes, bugs and laughs
>
> the features marked as "(optional)" require additional software to be 
> installed (e.g. the "tcllib" (for SHA256 verification) resp. the 
> "tkdnd" (for drag'n'drop; if you got the dropsuite plugin to work, 
> then this will work as well)
> some of the features are not really user-visible yet, notably the one 
> labelled "(dekenception)". but this is the deken-part of the recent 
> click-broken-object-to-find-the-library demo i posted on the pd-list.
>
>
> deken cmdline (create and upload packages)
> ==========================================
>
> for those of you who develop libraries and publish them via deken, 
> there's also an updated version of the `deken` cmdline utility.
>
>
> - much improved generation of object lists (using the DESCRIPTION of 
> the object's help-patch)
> - new flag to override the package name
> - new flag to skip GPG-signing
> - settable output dir when creating packages
> - strip a leading "v" from the version to prevent accidental "vv1.2.3" 
> versions
> - take dynamic libraries into account when calculating the architecture
> - new "systemfix" command
>
> - new "systeminfo" command (for bugreports)
> - new "uninstall" command to uninstall packages (or deken itself)
> - fix password input on MSYS2
>
> - switch to hy-0.19/Python3
> - binaries for macOS & Windows
> - Docker image (registry.git.iem.at/pd/deken:v0.7.1) for use in 
> CI-systems
> - lots of fixes, wine and bugs
>
>
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