[PD-dev] Re: [PD] Re: [PD-announce] sIgpAck-0.03b

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Its already is in CVS, as "sigpack", following the convention of the
>> CVS having all lib/project folder names all lower case.  Having both
>> sIgpAck and sigpack will cause problems on case-aware filesystems used
>> on Windows and Mac OS X since they are two folders with the exact same
>> name in that situation.
>
> Oh, damn! I hadn't seen this and wasn't following pd-cvs close enough.
>
> (Btw: The lowercase-convention is already broken with "miXed",
> although I, too, generally prefer all-lowercase names. I asked Martin,
> what he would prefer.)
>
>> Plus, I see no need to have two copies of one project.
>
> No, of course not.
>
>> It should be  quite easy to make the sources that are in CVS already
>> compile as a lib  with the sp_ prefixes.  You can do something like
>> this to each source  file, in this case
>> externals/sigpack/source/chop~.c:
>
> The version, I checked in, has all help files renamed and the "sp."
> replaced by "sp_" everywhere already.
>
> Now, how should we proceed? (Better on pd-dev)
>

If the changes that I mentioned in my previous email were made to the  
externals/sigpack code, then it would compile into a lib with the sp_  
and compile into a libdir for Pd-extended.

I think that's the quickest route with the most flexibility.

.hc

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