Pd for Debian [was: Re: [PD] Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC6 release]

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> However I don't want to put any work into pd-0.38 anymore,

I understand that. It would be worth it if we had an unlimited supply of 
volunteers, but... ;-)

> A problem still is, that Hans' main makefile isn't yet ready to be used
> only partially. That is, "make all" works fine, but "make
> only_part_of_all" often doesn't.

That's not very important for building debian packages, because you can 
build everything and still make .deb's out of smaller parts. Is it an 
annoyance beyond just taking longer to compile? What happens if some 
library can't be compiled for some reason? (e.g. bug in compiler)

> As Demudi and Ubuntu use the Pd-packages from Debian upstream both don't
> create additional work.

I might give Ubuntu a try next time I install a Linux distro 
somewhere... which may come sooner than I think (it won't be on my 
own computer though).

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