[PD] Pd 0.54-1 Windows installer and winget.

[Lucas Cordiviola]

Hi list,

There are some news on 0.54-1 installer and 'winget'.



### Installer

- safer behavior:

     - the (un)installer refuses to do anything if it finds a currently 
running Pd or Pd64.

     - check if there's write permission on target dir before attempting 
to do anything else.

- troubleshoot tools:

     - tool to clear Pd(64) preferences. (only runs at user scope).

     - tool to set which Pd(64) installation is used to open .pd files 
(scope can be 'user' or 'allusers').

      - also these two tools are included in the uninstaller but here 
the '.pd' files repair is automatic (you don't have to choose which app).

         - you can trigger this selecting the app via (Control Panel\All 
Control Panel Items\Programs and Features) or ((Windows)settings -> apps 
-> apps & features)

- user scope:

     - admin users can choose to install or run troubleshot tools at 
'user' or 'allusers' scope.

- alternate install

     - user can choose to do an alternate install if there is already a 
default one. it prompts for a short string (like 'Pd-0.54-0-(alt)' to be 
used to name the: install folder, start menu folder, desktop shortcut 
and uninstall name.



### Winget

On recent Windows machines (up-to-date Win10 or Win11) you can use the 
'open sourced Windows package manager'. open a Terminal (or CMD or 
Powershell) window and do:

     winget search puredata

you should get something like:

~~~
Name      Id                      Version Match         Source
--------------------------------------------------------------
Pure Data MillerPuckette.PureData 0.54-1                winget
Pd64      MillerPuckette.Pd64     0.54-1  Tag: puredata winget
~~~

so to install Pd do:

     winget install puredata

to install Pd64 (this is the double-precision experimental Pd) do:

     winget install pd64



Lucarda :)

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