[PD-dev] updating 'puredata' package to 0.42.5
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Fri Nov 20 07:48:44 CET 2009
On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:10:34PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that Günter is no longer updating the 'puredata' package,
>>> so I
>>> wanted to start the process of updating it. I am working on
>>> becoming a
>>> Debian Maintainer, so I can get direct upload access.
>>> This is what I would like to address:
>>> - improved puredata.desktop for file associations, etc.
>>> - built against Tcl/Tk 8.5
>>
>> We don't need the «puredata» package, because we have the «pd-
>> extended»
>> package, and that's enough for essentially everybody.
>
> Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but if this is a question of
> being able
> to apt-get install vanilla Pd under Debian GNU/Linux, I would like
> to have that
> option rather than only having the option to install pd-extended.
The 'puredata' package is already in Debian and Ubuntu and has been
for a while. That's pd-vanilla.
.hc
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