[PD] call for testing on the nightly builds!

[Enrique Erne]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've been fixing quite a lot of bugs in preparation of making the Pd- 
> extended 0.40.3 release.  It's getting pretty much ready, so please  
> test it heavily so we can find any outstanding bugs!
> 
> Jack just pointed out that pdp on Mac OS X/PowerPC is having problems  
> loading videos, and is crashing, so I am working on that now.
> 
> .hc


hi Hans

i have been happily working with pd-0.40-extended (20080222) for quite a 
while. there are some issues though.

Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080504-macosx104-i386 on a osx 10.5.2

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1) at the moment if one modifies the preferences of i.e. vanilla pd the 
pd-extended looses all path and startup preferences (this is on osx i 
don't know about win or linux).

i would like to propose that ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pd.plist 
will be completely ignored by pd-extended. instead only the 
org.puredata.pd.plist inside the pd-extended app should be used.
this way one could have different working setups. what do you think?

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2) as i reported earlier
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-01/058787.html
some objects can't create. i think that all of them are know problems. 
for me not be able to use <~ and >~ is _most_ annoying 
(hexloader-something?). i know there are workarounds with expr.
not including iem-t3 lib is a loss but i can live without it. thou it 
makes around 5 nice netpd patches not usable anymore.

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3) help files
most help files worked (could create) but some:

iemmatrix/matrix-help.pd
  mtx
... couldn't create

mrpeach/packOSC-help.pd
  packOSC
... couldn't create

sssad/sssad-help.pd
  sssad key
... couldn't create
libdir_loader: added sssad to the canvas-local path
  sssad key
... couldn't create

i wondered why some help files worked and some not. i thought it was 
done by org.puredata.pd.plist settings. so i added sssad
	<key>loadlib40</key>
	<string>sssad</string>
restarted pd, but the help files still couldn't create.

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4) name clash
[curve] Gem vs. mapping
probably some more

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what are the goals? which externals are supposed to work on default? are 
that the ones in the plist? maybe we should focus on them (before i 
start to open all help files :) )

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thanks for all your work and thanks to all the other devs too!

eni