Hi there,
As I told it before, a student here is developing a Pure Data Package
manager.
The basic idea of the Pure Data package manager is to deal with bundle
files.
We are using a zip file for each external or library as the bundle
package.
The bundle name will contain the library / external name and also the
architecture.
He is studying some software packages to base his development like deb,
rpm, xip, nbm, ...
Since we have different types of plugins (tcl/tk, c and pd abstraction),
it can have more than one architecture.
I don't know how bad is to call everything a plugin but it is how we are
dealing with it. :-)
The bundle also includes help files, license, readme file, a packet
descriptor and installation instructions.
The descriptor is a text file with several information like author,
architecture, checksum, version, source path, ...
We are developing a "packer" tool to help developers to pack their
externals and an installation tool to add / remove plugins.
Next step is to define a remote repository, a repository descriptor and
a local repository.
We intend to use HTTP protocol as a default repository server.
Once it is done, we will develop a update tool to add repositories, list
repositories' externals and add / remove plugins.
I hope it will be a simple way to distribute plugins and developers will
be able to provide their externals to users.
Maybe it will be possible to pack every pd-extended external separately
and put it in one or more repositories.
Again, since it is a final project in our computer science course, it
will take some time to get it ready.
I hope you can wait it a little bit more.
I will keep you guys informed about it.
What do you think about it?
Some suggestions?
Cheers
Flávio Schiavoni
Em 08-06-2015 19:29, IOhannes m zmölnig escreveu:
On 06/08/2015 11:55 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
what do you mean by "monolithic distribution"?
a single zip-file containing a pd-binary (of extended flavour) and a
large collection of externals.
gfmdsaf
IOhannes
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