[PD-dev] working towards Pd-0.40.3-extended

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> The thing that holds back Pd-extended is that very few people help to
>> work on a proper release cycle, meaning make a release branch, do
>> lots of testing, and fix the bugs.  With more help, this would go
>> faster.  I just didn't want to release with showstopper bugs.  Sadly
>> I had to, Gem on GNU/Linux new ATI cards is almost unusable, as Roman
>> can attest.
>
> Well, that's what I'm talking about: bugs in one part like Gem will
> hold up everything else. It's like pd-extended-huge is trying to grab
> that magical moment in time, when everything works. And even that is
> not consistent: IIR the Gem in pd-extended is much newer than the Pd
> in pd-extended. So on one hand everthing may fall apart again when
> starting to work on whatever is considered version number 0.40, on the
> other hand it seems an arbitrary decision which versions of certain
> components get chosen.
>
> And then, assuming somebody can fix Gem on Ati cards, it's not easily
> possible to upgrade just Gem in Pd-extended's monolithic build.
>
>> Also, I don't switch to Miller's next version till he's done with the
>> bugfix releases.  It's a lot of work to switch to new sources from
>> Miller, and even more to try to track his changes.
>
> Okay, I can understand that and it sounds sensible.

That said, if someone else wants to speed up the cycle, and start  
working against miller's code, then they should step right up! :D

And as an experiment, I made a new autobuild called "pd-main+libs",  
which is Pd straight from the HEAD of MAIN and the rest of Pd- 
extended.  None of the patches are included tho, so it shouldn't be  
considered "Pd-extended", though it's labeled that way (Pd-0.41.0- 
extended-20071027-debian-testing-i386.deb). This will only build on  
GNU/Linux.  I need to patch Miller's sources in order to make builds  
on Windows and Mac OS X.

.hc

>
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