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

[Christof Ressi]

Excuse the terrible typos. See the corrected version below.

On 24.11.2021 17:12, Christof Ressi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> it's very common to upload test releases to Deken. They usually have 
> suffixes like "alpha", "beta", "pre", "test" in their version number 
> to make it clear that they are not stable releases. Pd users are 
> really used to install any externals with Deken. Manual downloads are 
> really the exception nowadays.
>
> 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 caveat is that "~" is not 
> allowed in git tags, which can be a problem for certain CI setups 
> where the version number is derived from the git tag.
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 7:21 AM IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     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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