[PD] pd cvs and packages

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 20:04 America/New_York, Thomas Grill wrote:

> Hi Miller, hi all,
> i'm about to update the cvs considering the latest pd release.
>
> I stumbled over (at least) two points:
> - there's no paf~ in my pd for Windows package anymore. Is this 
> intended?

I don't know about this object, but we are sorely in need of a Windows 
distro maintainer... people have contributed work, but no one has made 
a complete package like Guenter's debian packages and my MacOS X 
packages (following in Adam Lindsay's footsteps).

> - for the extras, there are (the same) helpfiles in the extra folder, 
> as
> well as in the subfolders therein. Which one is the right location?

AFAIK, the correct location for help patches is pd/doc/5.reference.  
That's where my MacOS X installer puts them all.

> Also apart from that, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep 
> the cvs
> in sync with the releases, mainly because of the different platforms 
> and the
> various portaudio/portmidi dependencies.
> I'm i right suspecting that you, Miller, have a source tree that is
> equivalent to the one in the cvs? If this assumption is correct would 
> it be
> too difficult if you checked in the main branch each time there is a 
> new
> release?
> Keeping the development branches in sync would then also be much 
> easier.

Also, we have Access Control Lists set up in the CVS, so the Pd sources 
could be safely maintained in the CVS without anyone else having 
write/commit access.

Also, Yves requested ChangeLogs for Pd, which would be quite helpful 
for Pd developers and users.  Maintaining code in CVS makes ChangeLogs 
really easy.  Just run cvs2cl and it will make a ChangeLog from all of 
the checkin comments.  But this of course assumes that the developers 
write comments for every checkin (which they should!).

.hc


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