[PD] Scheme for Pd 0.1 binaries up for win and mac

[Christof Ressi]

Hi,

it's very common to upload test release to Deken. They are usually have 
"alpha", "beta", "pre", "test" in their version number to make it clear 
that they are not stable release. Pd uses are really used to install any 
externals via Deken. Manual downloads are really the exception.

Care needs to be taken that the final release is ordered *before* the 
test releases by having a lexicographically *larger* version number. For 
example, "v0.1" is smaller than "v0.1-test" (= bad).

To circumvent this problem, Deken sorts "~" before everything else, so 
you can safely use "v0.1~test". The only problem is that "~" is not in 
git tags, so this can lead to problems in certain CI setups.

Another trick is to include a bug fix number for the final release: 
"v0.1.0" ranks higher than "v0.1-test"

Christof

On 24.11.2021 16:55, Iain Duncan wrote:
> Hi, yes they will be added to the package manager, in due time. 
> Perhaps I'm in a minority here, but my perspective from a couple of 
> decades of doing software is that package managers should only hold 
> releases that are definitely stable and production ready.  One only 
> has one chance for a first impression, and if new users hit problems 
> with something in a package manager, it reflects badly on the project. 
> When they hit the same issues after downloading a package marked 
> "beta" from GitHub, it's quite a different impression. My opinion is 
> that what I get from NPM or PyPi better "just work". :-)
>
> So I need some reports from people on windows that installation and 
> first steps are going smoothly, and then I will put it up in Deken. I 
> would imagine it should be up in the next month.
>
> iain
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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 7:21 AM IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> 
> wrote:
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>     On 11/24/21 11:07, Peter P. wrote:
>     > unless you have already done this, do you think of adding these
>     binaries
>     > to Pd's "Deken" Package manager?
>
>
>     https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd/issues/22
>
>     mfdsar
>     IOhannes
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