Hello,
Warning, 100% vapourware ahead.
On 14/10/15 23:22, rolfm@dds.nl wrote:
it looks like the future of pd-extended is going to be 'deken'. what to do then about portability?
I think we should copy the good existing solutions for this from popular scripting languages.
For example, in Python you can supply a file "requirements.txt" with
your Python code, and an end-user can issue pip install -r requirements.txt to install all of the packages with the correct
versions listed therein:
https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html
There should be a thing in Pd/deken that works exactly like this. For example, you could have a [deps] object which specifies the name of a text file that contains the list of dependencies and their versions. The user could bang the [deps] object (or be prompted when it loads, or some other user-friendly mechanism) to load up the deken interface and initiate the install of those dependencies one-by-one.
Before anybody wigs out about security, obviously we should make sure
the GPG signatures of all of those binary packages are checked and
verified, as well as using HTTPS for all connections, and the user
should be prompted before taking any action that might compromise their
security, and informed of all of the risks [which is much more than
Python's pip does currently]. Just as much as anybody else I don't
want the NSA stealing my proprietary procedural rave algorithms[1] and
using them to subdue a band of deeply attractive Russian spies causing
them to dance uncontrollably to the frankly irresistible rhythms of acid
bass + garage beats thereby forcing the west's neo-libertarian
centralized fiat capitalist imperial practices upon the free world[2].
Fuck that!
IOhannes and I have some draft code and GitHub tickets (search "dekenception" on the GitHub) pointing in this general direction but there is a lot of work to be done. Patches are very much welcome!
Given the above does not exist, if the current deken functionality does not work for your users I would suggest they use Pd-extended, or Pd-l2ork if it is available for their platform [I have not tried the latter but I think Jonathan indicated it should fit the bill].
Cheers,
Chris.
[1] Hypothetically proprietary - they're actually GPL. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_Humor_Belong_in_Music%3F_%28album%29#/med...