> I'm just getting around to trying out deken. I think this will be a wonderful 
> way to deal with libraries. I'm having some problems in OS X, though.
> 
> I used deken to import zexy and cyclone. The help files appear in the help 
> browser, now, but none of the objects will load. I've tried [import zexy]. I 
> noticed ~/Library/Pd was not included in the search path. I tried adding it 
> and restarting without any results. Am I doing something wrong?

As far as I know, currently Deken installs built libs but does not add them to 
your list of libs to load at startup. You need to do that manually.

> Some libraries I searched for, like moonlib, were only available in Windows 
> and Linux flavors. Would it be easy for me to compile missing libraries and 
> upload them to add options for OS X users? (I know very little about the 
> backend of package management systems.)

Yes. If the libraries are updated to support building via the pd-lib-builder 
Makefile <https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder>, it should be easy. So 
far, “updating” seems to only require adding the Makefile and a template to 
call a copy of pd-lib-builder.

Deken makes this easy to do, see the readme: 
https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package 
<https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package>

> Also, who's developing deken? Is it a team? Just one person? Are there plans 
> to have lists of available libraries in the future?

Chris M started it with input by a small group. Recently, IOhannes has been 
working away with a large number of updates, including facilitating package 
storage on puredata.info <http://puredata.info/>. Miller has also expressed 
some interest in incorporating Deken into vanilla in the future.

> Thanks to whoever is helping to provide an alternative for Pd-extended! You 
> are doing tremendous work!

Yes indeed.

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> On Oct 30, 2015, at 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> From: Samuel Burt <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: October 29, 2015 at 12:30:10 PM MDT
> To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: [PD] deken (OS X)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sam
> Goucher College Computer Music

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