Since the transition from Pd-extended to 'Pd-deken' is a currently discussed topic, I try again.
I know some Pd users on Windows and I would like to help them with the transition from Pd-extended to Pd-vanilla. It seems for them Pd coming as zip is already a culprit when they're used to Pd-extended doing the whole setup automatically. Manually setting up file associations and start menus is a lot of work that they think (and I do so as well) should be automated. We treat other platforms with a lot of care (it seems you can get Pure Data as FreeBSD port) and I think Pd on Windows deserves the same amount of care.
I tried to do all the work and would welcome some feedback.
Roman
On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 15:20 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
Hey all
In order to make Pd as accessible as possible also to casual Pd users on Windows, I think it should come as an installer (as other software does as well). That's one of the things I think Pd-extended did right.
What's the stance about it from Miller and other people?
I just went ahead and tried to do it myself. Please check: http://www.netpd.org/~roman/tmp/nsis_installer/
It's based on the NSIS scripting language and compiler. My silent hope is that the reason for Pd currently being delivered as zip is simply laziness, and that you, Miller, would be willing to adopt the script. I'd welcome any feedback.
Roman