[PD-dev] new distro: pd-vanilla+libs
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Fri Apr 18 21:58:43 CEST 2008
On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Ultimately, that sounds like a good goal, but it would also be a lot
>> more work, and would cuase more bugs. There are incompatibilities
>> between versions, not always large, but there. That means you'd then
>> have to add code to manage that. Externals are a lot like linux
>> kernel modules.
>
> Is it really that bad? I often don't recompile my externals when I
> install a newer Pd version (and just for fun loaded maxlib 0.3,
> compiled
> Jul 8 2002 with the newest Pd, seems to work just fine).
>
> I know, some externals are dependent on a specific version, e.g. GUI
> externals like knob or some that use "private" headers, and of course
> some abstraction may require features not available in early versions.
> But this may be possible to work around by requiring a minimum version
> of Pd(-vanilla).
You are welcome to deal with it. I've done it enough. I have no
interest in dealing with those issues, so how about we get the
unified build working, then y'all can find out the joys of binary
incompatibilies without me. :)
.hc
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