[PD-dev] Re: PD-cvs Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Dec 16 07:23:59 CET 2005


On Dec 15, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:42:15 -0500
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00:37 +0100
>>> pd-cvs-request at iem.at wrote:
>>>
>>>> Log Message:
>>>> checking in missing files on behalf of Miller (cleared it with him
>>>> first).  The files are from portmidi17nov04.zip
>>>
>>> great ... i'm trying to remove all external sources from the cvs ...
>>> and the portmidi sources are added ...
>>
>> I am just making the CVS a mirror of Miller's development
>> environment, the portmidi and portaudio stuff was half-complete, so
>> it makes more sense to have it complete then leave it as is.
>> Previously, it was missing files which were used in the compilation.
>>
>> I've been posting on this topic for a while now, so it shouldn't be
>> a surprise.  I just finally got around to acting on it.
>
> i read your previous mails ... still i think, that the people, who
> would like to compile pd are capable of downloading one or two
> dependencies (if they're not the can use the binaries)
> and that it's far better to try to stay in sync with the upstream of
> these specific packages ... (see the portaudio memory leak on osx a few
> weeks ago)

Staying in sync sounds good to me.  But I think that since  
portaudio/portmidi are not stable APIs and still alpha/beta code, we  
should maintain a copy in CVS.  That way, when we get a version that we  
know works, we can have it in CVS, and Pd will always build.  And when  
someone new comes along, they won't have to deal with tracking down the  
right CVS snapshot for getting Pd to compile/run stably.

And its easy enough for devs to point to the portaudio/portmidi source  
of their choosing, just change -I../portaudio to whatever you want.

.hc

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