[PD] Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC7

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Piotr Majdak wrote:

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> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Piotr Majdak wrote:
>>> Hi Hans-Christoph,
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>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Unless there is something very wrong with this release, this will  
>>>> be   the final release.  Then it'll be posted up on SourceForge as   
>>>>  Pd-0.38.4-extended.
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried it, works fine besides some issues:
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>>> - The start up libs can't be removed (add a lib once and never  
>>> remove).
>>  From the preferences?  Try deleting the preferecnes file.  Which   
>> platform?
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> Windows 2000. I think the settings are saved in the registry and  
> there's no preferences file, isn't it? I know this bug from Miller's  
> 0.39 and it was fixed for 0.39.1 or .2 (not sure about it...)
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>>> - I can't load the sndfile object (the threaded soundfile by g.   
>>> Holzmann):
>>>   load_object: Symbol "libsndfile_setup" not found
>>>   lib/libsndfile: can't load library
>>>   No idea why...
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> Georg cleared up the problem - it works for >= 0.39 only
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>>> - I can't find the iemlib. What should I load instead?
>> The iemlib objects are compiled as individual objects and are  
>> directly  in "extra", so no need to load a lib.
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> I see. This requires parsing all patches I use for all objects I use  
> from the iemlib and change my start up files :-(
> I think you have good reasons to leave the common concept of libraries  
> - loading single objects can be advantagous in some cases. Would you  
> mind to include the iemlib as a library in your distributions,  
> additional to the individual objects of iemlib in /extra? (did you  
> really compile them _all_ separately? WOW!). This would give us a kind  
> of backward compatibility and let you include the concept of single  
> objects. The price for this solution would be an about 200kB bigger  
> distro, which I think is affordable. And more work for you, of course  
> :-)

The issue of single-file objects vs. multi-file libraries has been  
talked about at great length on this list, I am not going to revisit it  
now.  I am not going to work with multi-file libraries anymore, but  
anyone else is welcome to do the work.

In the future, the IEMlib objects will be included as a libdir  
(http://puredata.org/docs/developer/Libdir ), like the rest of the  
libraries in Pd-extended.  But I can't say when that future is just  
yet.

.hc


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