[PD] Pd-extended 0.42.5 dropped tk8.4 dependency only in source?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Tue Apr 19 19:59:36 CEST 2011


On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:52 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> 
> > I had to install pd-extended on a Ubuntu Lucid box and the .deb listed
> > in the download section still has a tk8.4 dependency, which in turns
> > seems to give a font problem [1]?
> 
> What I do is recompile the core of Pd-Extended 42 myself. It takes 5 
> minutes, and then I combine it with a set of precompiled externals from a 
> deb file. This allows me to use Tcl/Tk 8.5, because Tcl/Tk 8.4 is way too 
> old. I think that everybody on Linux deserves to use Tcl/Tk 8.5 fonts with 
> Pd-Extended 42.
> 
> However, the problem that I have with Tk 8.4 is just the antialias.
> 
> Tk 8.4 and 8.5 on Linux also have an annoying IEM font size difference, 
> but this does not affect the main font of the patches.
> 
> Helpfile screenshots that I made were all made using Tk 8.5, Pd-Extended 
> 42, and Ubuntu 9.10. For example, it looks like this :
> 
>    http://gridflow.ca/help/%23io.x11-help.html
> 


The Pd-extended 0.42.5 release on newer Debian/Ubuntu releases use
Tcl/Tk 8.5

.hc




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