we are proud to announce a major overhaul of the deken fileformat.
TL;DR to download new deken packages, you will need at least version v0.3.0 of the deken-plugin (Pd-0.48-1 includes deken-v0.2.4). When searching externals with an old (incompatible) version of the plugin, you will always find a suggestion to install the new plugin with something like:
deken-plugin/0.3.0 (Deken externals downloader - REQUIRED FOR NEW PACKAGES)
once you have installed the new version (and/or Pd includes a compatible version), the nagging will stop :-)
# fileformat
the new fileformat fixes a number of issues we had with the existing one. things that are better:
- cool filename extension '.dek'
- consistent archival options for all platforms (ZIP!)
- proper detection of the version string for all libraries (even if the
library has a weird name like "a-v12"
- support for double-precision externals (once Pd supports that!)
- extensible
# Pd-integration the updated "deken-plugin" has a number of nifty features, you don't want to miss:
- support for the new fileformat
- support for the old (legacy) fileformat
- (optionally) uninstall libraries before re-installing them
- (optionally) show a README that is included in the package on
successful installation
- set installation path (suggesting Pd's default search paths, and
offering to create those that are missing)
- (optionally) hides the search-results for incompatible platforms
- (optionally) overrides the "compatible" Pd-architecture
- nice preferences
- bugfixes
- much more
# Developer tools if you are a developer of libraries, we have also updated our 'deken' cmdline tool. things you always wanted to have and which are now free:
- support for the new fileformat (default)
- support for the old (legacy) fileformat
- better detection of binary architectures
- better detection of included sources
- (experimental) support for double-precision externals
- pre-compiled & self-contained Windows binaries
- bugfixes
- much more
if you want to know more, see
- http://puredata.info/downloads/deken/releases/0.3.0/
- https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2018-02/021513.html
- https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/161
i have submitted also submitted a Pull-Request to include the new deken-plugin into Pd proper:
and another Pull-Request for Pd that is required to make the double-precision detection work:
happy patching. fgm,asdr IOhannes
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