I don’t know if you’ve been following the recent discussions on this list, but there is currently a very similar tool in development: https://github.com/pure-data/deken <https://github.com/pure-data/deken>
-------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > On Jun 9, 2015, at 10:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > From: Flávio Schiavoni <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [PD] Problems with maintaining Pd-extended (was Mess and > redundancy...) > Date: June 9, 2015 at 10:10:18 AM EDT > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> <http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list>
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