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jorgecardoso
Processing + External libraries package
Jan 16th, 2008, 12:02pm  
Hi,

I've faced this problem a few times and I still don't have a good solution, so here it goes:

I teach Processing and every so often the lab computers are updated (read formated, or substituted) and Processing (and everything else) needs to be reinstalled.

I usually end up installing the latest version available (that I've worked with) and the external libraries that I use most in my classes.

The problem is that installing libraries one by one is a pain in a**. I tried copying the old libraries but some of them get updated so I need to check every one of them anyway.

<wish>
What would be cool was to have a package of Processing and *All* the latest extern libraries (or just a package of libraries ready to be copied to the libraries folder).
</wish>

What do you guys feel about this?

PS: I volunteer for doing this, provided we find a mechanism to help keep things up to date (without me polling library pages to see if they were updated since last time)
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polymonkey
Re: Processing + External libraries package
Reply #1 - Jan 16th, 2008, 10:08pm  
I'll be teaching processing this year and I'm sure I'll hit the same issue.

What about a library downloader. There is a database of libraries out there on the internets. And you can go to one spot and get the latest ones you need. Have a link under tools called " get libraries" it take you to a libraries download page and away you go.

Just another 2c.

P.S. I'm getting into the habit of storing the libraries for a sketch in the code folder with the sketch. That way when I come back, it'll still work even if functionality has changed in the lib. In a lab situation it's a good habit to get into.
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