[PD] Pd packaging on osx was: Re: [PD-announce] [osx] pd++0.39-1Beta available

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Lorenz Schori hat gesagt: // Lorenz Schori wrote:

> it is certainly not the goal to make things more complicated nor to  
> include less stuff. what i propose is just to move the externals out  
> of the package into a more accessible, managable and natural (for osx  
> users) place, plus to modularize externals a bit (standard/gem/pdp/ 
> flext/...). this way it will be easier to upgrade pd and different  
> external packages independantly from each other.

But is there a way to handle dependencies as cleanly as e.g. Debian
does it? For example you would need different flext packages for
pd-devel and ps-MSP, IIRC. Some externals which use private headers
may need to be recompiled for a a new upstream version. With a single
package it is easy for Mac users to get matching versions of
everything. 

I guess it would be the best to get in contact with the Fink team and
provide regular Fink packages of Pd and Pd externals? 

Ciao
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