I don’t know if you’ve been following the recent discussions on this list, but there is currently a very similar tool in development: https://github.com/pure-data/deken

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com

On Jun 9, 2015, at 10:07 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:


From: 
Flávio Schiavoni <fls@rendera.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PD] Problems with maintaining Pd-extended (was Mess and redundancy...)
Date: June 9, 2015 at 10:10:18 AM EDT
To: pd-list@lists.iem.at


Hi there,

As I told it before, a student here is developing a Pure Data Package manager.
The basic idea of the Pure Data package manager is to deal with bundle files.
We are using a zip file for each external or library as the bundle package.
The bundle name will contain the library / external name and also the architecture.
He is studying some software packages to base his development like deb, rpm, xip, nbm, ...
Since we have different types of plugins (tcl/tk, c and pd abstraction), it can have more than one architecture.
I don't know how bad is to call everything a plugin but it is how we are dealing with it. :-)
The bundle also includes help files, license, readme file, a packet descriptor and  installation instructions.
The descriptor is a text file with several information like author, architecture, checksum, version, source path, ...
We are developing a "packer" tool to help developers to pack their externals and an installation tool to add / remove plugins.
Next step is to define a remote repository, a repository descriptor and a local repository.
We intend to use HTTP protocol as a default repository server.
Once it is done, we will develop a update tool to add repositories, list repositories' externals and add / remove plugins.
I hope it will be a simple way to distribute plugins and developers will be able to provide their externals to users.
Maybe it will be possible to pack every pd-extended external separately and put it in one or more repositories.

Again, since it is a final project in our computer science course, it will take some time to get it ready.
I hope you can wait it a little bit more.
I will keep you guys informed about it.

What do you think about it?
Some suggestions?

Cheers

Flávio Schiavoni


Em 08-06-2015 19:29, IOhannes m zmölnig escreveu:
On 06/08/2015 11:55 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
what do you mean by "monolithic distribution"?
a single zip-file containing a pd-binary (of extended flavour) and a
large collection of externals.
gfmdsaf
IOhannes
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