[PD-dev] "imports" section of CVS

[David Plans Casal]

On 13 Mar 2006, at 23:15, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Well, I guess I misunderstood what should go in imports, and maybe I
> do have objections: I thought, "imports" was to be intended for
> libraries, that are required by Pd externals and maybe Pd itself, but
> not for standalone applications independent from Pd, as the DSSI
> plugins are? The DSSI folks have their own Sourceforge project, they
> have their own release system, and their applications are not required
> to run Pd at all.

I don't necessarily agree with that. Perhaps 'imports' isn't the  
right word, but the fact that a library isn't required to run Pd at  
all might not be a good enough reason not to include it in an  
extended build system, especially if it is kept completely apart from  
the main tree.

I would rather see apt or fink-style dependency resolution, but I  
think hc's compromise of separating concerns and letting people  
ignore 'imports' if they want to/need to seems fair enough. I would  
rather see it built, than stop here on principle.

d
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