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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 27, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> 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... ;-)

Pd 0.39 has significant changes that are not backwards compatible.  I  
don't use it yet for that reasons, as with many others.  The aim for  
the Pd-extended distros is to have a stable package which works as  
smoothly as possible.  Think Debian-stable.  I don't think 0.39 is up  
to that yet, especially when you consider all of the externals, docs,  
abstractions, and patches to Pd that are included in Pd-extended.

.hc

>> 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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