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>

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Dan Wilcox
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> 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
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