This is news to me. I thought deken was now the way to install gem regardless of platform. I see a LOT of new users attempting this and struggling. I also know that people coming from extended are being told they should use deken. Gem is often one of the first things extended users try to install via deken. I imagine this could be at the root of a lot of people just going straight back to extended.
I agree that it really should be removed from deken repos asap if that isn't a good way to get it running. > On Sep 28, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2017년 09월 28일 19:36, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >>> On 09/28/2017 06:33 PM, Max wrote: >>> >>> Well, in theory the gem on deken could be a different (newer) version >>> then the one coming through the package management, especially if you >>> are on a release based distribution like ubuntu, mint, etc. >> so? >> as the maintainer of Gem i'm pretty well aware of it's dependency chain >> and as a co-developer of deken i firmly believe that it is not up to >> handling such things. > > understood. > > that only is true for gem on linux though, because there is no system package > management on win/osx. > Maybe it would be a good idea to make a message appear: > "Please install Gem via the package manager (apt,yum, etc)" if people search > for Gem in deken. So that poor linux beginners don't get too frustrated when > they follow some random tutorial by an apple/ms user how to install Pd/Gem. > > my 0.5ct > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
