hi

i'd like to announce the release of deken-v0.7.1

https://github.com/pure-data/deken/releases/v0.7.1

the GUI-plugin can be installed via deken. just go to "Help -> Find externals" and enter "deken-plugin" as the search string.

this is the version i'd like to get into the next Pd release as the standard "find externals" implementation. so please test :-)

what's new?

deken-plugin ("Find externals" within Pd)

• decide whether you want to search of libraries, objects or both
• select multiple packages (with right-click) and download/install them

at once

• install packages from files
• library sorting has improved (newer libraries sort before older

libraries, rather than reversed-alphabetically)

• (optional) drag'n'drop package files onto the dialog to install them
• callback to allow Pd to search for uncreatable objects (dekenception)
• better support for packages with externals that don't do any number

processing

• optionally keep package files after downloading them

• improve SHA256 verification handling

• introduce @PD_PATH@ placeholder for the path the the current

Pd-instance, so you can set the installation directory to @PD_PATH@/extra and installations won't interfere with each other.

• (optional) SHA256 verification

• fix close-window shortcut

• lots more of fixes, bugs and laughs

the features marked as "(optional)" require additional software to be installed (e.g. the "tcllib" (for SHA256 verification) resp. the "tkdnd" (for drag'n'drop; if you got the dropsuite plugin to work, then this will work as well) some of the features are not really user-visible yet, notably the one labelled "(dekenception)". but this is the deken-part of the recent click-broken-object-to-find-the-library demo i posted on the pd-list.

deken cmdline (create and upload packages)

for those of you who develop libraries and publish them via deken, there's also an updated version of the deken cmdline utility.

• much improved generation of object lists (using the DESCRIPTION of the

object's help-patch)

• new flag to override the package name
• new flag to skip GPG-signing
• settable output dir when creating packages
• strip a leading "v" from the version to prevent accidental "vv1.2.3"

versions

• take dynamic libraries into account when calculating the architecture

• new "systemfix" command

• new "systeminfo" command (for bugreports)

• new "uninstall" command to uninstall packages (or deken itself)

• fix password input on MSYS2

• switch to hy-0.19/Python3

• binaries for macOS & Windows

• Docker image (registry.git.iem.at/pd/deken:v0.7.1) for use in CI-systems

• lots of fixes, wine and bugs

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