[PD-dev] pd double autobuilds

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 20:39 +0200, katja wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > But I guess then these nightly builds don't help you that much, since
> > you're on 10.5.
> 
> In itself Pd-0.43.1-double-20111007-macosx106-x86_64.dmg runs without
> trouble on OSX 10.5. But:
> 
> - preference file org.puredata.pd.plist is read, this is vanilla's
> preference file
> - therefore, no external libs loaded at startup
> 
> For the moment, this may be an advantage. If we make test patches
> using namespaces for all external objects, like [zexy/limiter] etc,
> these patches will load the correct object for any Pd-extended install
> on the computer. When loading libs with help of the preference file,
> this is not guaranteed.* The only disadvantage is, you can not load an
> arbitrary patch which does not use namespaces.
> 
> Katja
> 
> 
> * Here's an example. Pd-0.43.1-extended-20111002.app tries to load:
> 
> /Applications/Pdextended.app/Contents/Resources/extra/iemlib/iem_anything.pd_darwin:
> dlopen(/Applications/Pdextended.app/Contents/Resources/extra/iemlib/iem_anything.pd_darwin,
> 10): no suitable image found.  Did find:
> /Applications/Pdextended.app/Contents/Resources/extra/iemlib/iem_anything.pd_darwin:
> mach-o, but wrong architecture

I think this is caused by using the 10.6 build on 10.5.  It is only
partially compatible.

.hc