On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org> wrote:

Seems like an interesting idea.  Personally, I think an apt-get style of package management would work better for Pd.  Sounds like you have all the right infrastructure, but instead of auto-downloading patches, it could be used for package management.

True.  I don't know though, I don't have a good concept of how that might work for Pd.  It's been discussed before but no one's really come up with a concrete suggestion for it as far as I know, so this is the best I could come up with for now..

I thought it might be good to get the ball rolling with some code.  I'd be extremely happy if someone wanted to fork it into a package management system.  At least it demonstrates how to download files, check them for trust, and tell Pd to load them, so maybe someone will find a better way to use that.  As it stands, the code is good enough that you could publish a patch on your website that would download the rest of itself on the fly, so it's a start at least.


Steve