On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > > Oh, I didn't realize that I could just type the name of the library I want to load in the startup dialog. I thought it required specific tags. I've got that working, now! (This is probably something I used to do, years ago, before extended spoiled me.) > 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. Is the reason for not having > deken automatically add them to startup, because users like to custom-load > these for particular projects? It would be great if deken had a tick box > for automatically adding these libraries to the startup routine. > > Deken makes this easy to do, see the readme: > https://github.com/pure-data/deken#create-and-upload-a-package > > When I've got some time, I will see what I can do with that. I'm not sure which extended libraries are "must have" for me, but I did notice deken's guide to adding libraries for platforms. > 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. Miller has also expressed some interest > in incorporating Deken into vanilla in the future. > > This is all very exciting news! IOhannes, you have always rocked! and Miller, there aren't enough words to thank you for Pure Data. Keep up the good fight! Chris M and friends, you guys had a brilliant idea. Thanks for following through.
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