[PD-dev] build instructions for pd-extended

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Oct 6 01:20:16 CEST 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 06:53 -0300, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:
> Hey Hans,
> 
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > SVN is a lot
> > easier than git, and I figure anyone how knows 'git svn' doesn't need
> > to have it documented.
> 
> That's true, but knowing a single tool is a lot easier than knowing
> two.. Many newer programmers are being taught to user Git from the
> start. Our lab is an example. Anyways, the nice thing here is the
> uniform interface to all Pd-related repos through Git. That's the next
> best thing to having it all natively in Git. Since these docs treat
> all repos, I thought git-svn is well worth mentioning. I wrote a
> version of the docs now that lists this as an option; the target is
> not who already know git-svn but those who don't, cultivating more Git
> culture in the Pd community towards an eventual full migration to it.
> 
> > Also, since that page is called BuildingPdExtended, perhaps it makes sense
> > to have a WorkingWithPdExtendedSources page that is linked from
> > GettingPdSource and BuildingPdExtended as a place to fully document all the
> > possible setups for development.
> 
> Done.
> 
> >
> > I've been trying to make the developer docs a collection of small modules of
> > pages, so they can be reused a lot. Before, what would happen is that
> > something like the rsync command was documented in multiple places, but
> > would only get updated in one place, so there was a lot of out-of-date info
> > around. Having it small pages that are linked between a lot means we can
> > have it so something is only documented in a single page, so there is only
> > one place to update.
> 
> Agreed!
> 
> Further suggestions to the latest docs are always welcome.
> 
> Ricardo.

I made some small changes to BuildingPdExtended. Its really great that
you are documenting this stuff :)

.hc





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