On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 19:20 +0100, Fred Jan Kraan wrote:
I would rather propose adding some mandatory meta information to deken uploads. A package that can be downloaded from puredata.info should at least contain the information which sources it was built from.
The puredata.info could host such a list in the public wiki.
It is not very convenient to download several packages just to find out the most recent/bug free.
Exactly. This is why there is a version field in deken packages.
I don't see how something like a fork map helps the end user, i. e. the one using Pure Data and installing an external through deken. When you install something with deken, you primarily want to know what sources have been used to build that package. Once you know that, you might also want to know where those sources are forked from. Currently, you only know _who_ as uploaded a package, but you do not know _where_ the sources of a package are hosted.
I'm not opposing the idea of a fork map, but there is more important information missing before that.
Roman