[PD-dev] repository layout
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Fri Sep 14 06:06:05 CEST 2007
On Sep 13, 2007, at 5:07 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> however, once we have moved to SVN i would like to make an
>>> experimental branch of pd-extended to re-work the entire build-
>>> system into small (managable) pieces that are modular and survive
>>> directory re-structuring.
>>> i know that you are not really interested in that, but probably
>>> others are :-)
>> I am all for improving things, but it seems that this would need
>> to happen before reorganizing the repository.
>
> doing this in an svn repository will be so much more easy.
>
>> Otherwise we are without pd-extended builds until it happens.
>
> no not quite true.
> 1st of all, all the /externals would be compiled as usual. (nothing
> changes here, just some things get added)
> however /abstractions would be left out of pd-extended at first.
> then you could just move the abstractions/Makefile as a temporary
> hack to externals/Makefile.abstractions and call that from
> externals/Makefile
> (the same with other stuff, which i am currently unaware that it is
> in pd-extended: e.g. gripd(?))
>
> this should be doable in one afternoon.
>> That's not why I spent all my free time one summer building the Pd-
>> extended and the auto-build farm. Switching to SVN is not a good
>> enough reason for major breakage.
>
>
> i see your point. that is why i always opposed to a monolithic non-
> scalable build-system: it makes refactoring hard if not impossible.
Does that mean you are volunteering to do the work? :-D About the
technical issues, we are on the same page, more or less. I am just
really burnt out on build system issues.
.hc
>
>
> fmasdr.
> IOhannes
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