Re: maintaining externals not found on deken

I would say, yes, you can take over maintenance. You could host a new copy somewhere and make your changes available as per the GPL in the original project. The code is already out, so asking the original author is a good idea but not a hard requirement IMO.

We have done this already for some externals which live in https://github.com/pd-externals. If you want, the repo could be included here with you as the project maintainer, etc.

> On Apr 7, 2026, at 4:38 PM, Fede Camara Halac <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about externals that are not found on deken. For example the [boids] external whose code is in the pd extended repo on gitlab [*], and it is not available for the latest macos.
> 
> What would be an acceptable way get it to deken? I can naturally get it, compile it, and use it. But, I want to know about best practices to making it available to others. Do I just do it myself and "claim" maintenance if the license allows it? do I ask someone else? to whom do I ask? what's the workflow if any?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> f
> 
> [*]https://gitlab.com/pd-extended/pd-extended/-/tree/a965f14f62be941631f43c1dfbe660a65e488a41/externals/boids
> 
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