[PD-dev] pd-devel
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Wed May 11 04:05:05 CEST 2005
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
> In my opinion Miller's vanilla PD is more like a development version in
> the way that it introduces more fundamental changes to the structure,
> while the devel branch normally just adds convience features.
This is going to change. The devel branch will introduce more fundamental
changes to the structure. The reason why no-one has really been daring to
is because it's too much trouble to repatch every devel version of
PureData this way:
miller-0.37 ---fork---> devel-0.37
| / |
| / |
| / merge
evolve .--obliviate--' if you
| / care
| / |
v v v
miller-0.38 ---fork---> devel-0.38
That is, currently, a new devel version is the last released miller
version plus part of the diff between devel 0.37 and miller 0.37. The
diagonal arrow is for the most part a non-arrow; to be fair, it's a
"merge" arrow but with a small percentage, whereas devel 0.38 has all the
new features of miller 0.38. Basically the same thing happened between
0.36 and 0.37 (but I wasn't really in the team yet, so correct me if I'm
wrong).
What I would see for the future is this:
miller-0.38 ----fork-----> community (formerly devel-0.38)
| / |
| / |----fork---> community stable R1
| whatever / |
evolve .-- miller ---' evolve
| / wants to do |
| / |----fork---> community stable R2
v v merge v
miller-0.39 --- if you ---> community
| care |
etc etc
Note that there are no version numbers for devel anymore. Here I renamed
it to "community". This system supports major changes in the community
branch, and no-longer supports the primacy of the miller branch. The
community branch would have its own stable releases independent from the
miller branch; they would be numbered differently so that there would be
no confusion _and_ that the miller-0.xx.0 releases *don't* drive version
changes of the releases of the community branch.
> but up to now there was no indication that important features like SIMD
> code, low latency callbacks and array update time will make it into
> Miller's PD soon.
There is still no such indication for SIMD, and it will get worse when
ImpureData enters the picture, which is Real Soon Now (tm).
>> I also think that, to promote evolution of the PureData source code base,
>> when Miller's 0.39 gets published, diffs between Miller's 0.38 and 0.39
>> should be merged to devel_0_38, and not the other way around. This is
>> especially important if there is more work being done on the non-Miller
>> side than on the Miller side.
> To my knowledge this has always been the case, no?
Does the long explanation above answer your question?
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