Hi -
So during lockdown here in Ireland, I bought a Sensel Morph to try and improve my PD performance abilities. I love the device, and very quickly graduated to trying to work with its MIDI MPE capabilities. This rapidly led me down the road to writing an an external [mpoly] object to handle the variety of messages that need to be dispatched for MPE. Having become frustrated with limitations in Sensels MIDI mapping software, I then proceeded to write a series of external objects that use the Sensel device API to directly communicate with PD.
And it all seems stable enough to release, but I'm a bit hazy on some aspects of publishing to deken, and was hoping someone could either answer my questions or point me to an appropriate document (as these questions haven't been addressed in anything I have found so far).
1 - How can I test my packaging and its installation? 2 - Can deken packages be deleted/removed/name changed? 3 - Do I need to support all architectures on day 1? (currently I build Linux/Win) 4 - Where can I get the nice help templates used by Else/Cyclone &cet? Everything I've found online seems to be both massively out of date and expects that you already know how to use it. 5 - One or Two packages? Currently, I have two separate shared libs, one requires the Sensel library, one does not. I haven't checked the licensing yet, but I assume the Sensel library probably can't be distributed in a deken friendly way.
So that's my list :) Any help would be greatly appreciated. The help template question is particularly vexing, as I find that help files for PD objects are *essential* to being able for me to figure things out, even when I grab someone else's code.
Thanks in Advance d