[PD-dev] adding standard install paths to the 'puredata' package

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Some quick comments..

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> By the way, is anyone from pure:dyne listening?  It would be great to 
> have some input from you.

1. The paths stuff: the status quo is fine, I don't understand what you 
are trying to fix at all, apart from disruptive "change for the sake of 
change" to make a name more perceptually uniform - wtf does that solve?

2. it was taking too long for us to get packages into Debian

3. Puredyne (Ubuntu Karmic based distro) packages are here:
https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team/+archive/ppa

4. The Puredyne pd-foo external packages "Depends: puredata" (afaik).

5. Maybe it would be better for puredata and pd-extended to both 
"Provide: pd", but then pd-extended will have a long "Conflicts: .." 
list, which is a pain for things like pd-gridflow "Depends: pd-gem, 
puredata" which means Puredyne pd-gridflow won't work with Pd-extended 
unless Pd-extended "Provides: pd-gem", then things will crash if the 
respective Pd ABIs are different, etc...

5.b. There must be a good elegant technical solution out there 
somewhere, but so far the "accidental workaround" of Puredyne's pd and 
externals packages basically conflicting with Pd-extended completely, 
hasn't caused too many problems in the wild: either have Puredyne 
puredata and modular externals, xor have Pd-extended monolith - choose 
your poison..


Claude