[PD-dev] updating 'puredata' package to 0.42.5

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Fri Nov 20 06:28:00 CET 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:10:34PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> It seems that Günter is no longer updating the 'puredata' package, so I 
>> wanted to start the process of updating it.  I am working on becoming a 
>> Debian Maintainer, so I can get direct upload access.
>> This is what I would like to address:
>> - improved puredata.desktop for file associations, etc.
>> - built against Tcl/Tk 8.5
>
> We don't need the «puredata» package, because we have the «pd-extended»  
> package, and that's enough for essentially everybody.

Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but if this is a question of being able
to apt-get install vanilla Pd under Debian GNU/Linux, I would like to have that
option rather than only having the option to install pd-extended.

Chris.

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