[PD] insta-builds?

[Thoralf Schulze]

Hi list,

most of the development of pd, gem and the externals
is taking place in the cvs nowadays. This a good thing
on the one hand, because it allows for a
non-centralized and transparent software development.
On the other hand, it is not so cool, because it makes
it pretty hard for the average user to get the latest
version of this or that external with all these cool
new features ...
With average user, I refer to people with no permanent
internet connection (which is bad when one has to hunt
down a specific version of a specific library which in
turn depends on a ton of other specific libraries) and
who do not necessarily use linux (sources? compiling?
where's the installer? MinGW? what the ... ?). These
people are forced to use rather old versions. To give
an example: the latest GEM build for win is about a
year old ... and there were some very interesting
additions recently, like advanced movement detection,
freeframe-plugins and so on. 
It would be great if we could establish something like
an instant build system that builds fresh version
straight from the cvs automagically once a month or
something like this. Something similar was working for
the xvid mpeg4 codec a while ago, and it was very much
appreciated by the community.
Needless to say, the usage of these versions would be
completely unsupported and "at your own risk", but I
guess that the average non-self-compiler could live
with this. In any case, more people would use fresh
versions, which will probably lead to faster bug
detection and all other sorts of benefits ...

with kind regards,
Thoralf.


	

	
		
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