[PD] call for testing on the nightly builds!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 13, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Enrique Erne wrote:

> 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
>
> -----------------
>
> 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?

I think people want to save preferences for Pd-extended too.  The  
current situation isn't great, that's true.  If people want separate  
preferences, that might be a possibility in a future Pd-extended  
release.

>
> -----------------
>
> 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.


You can now file bug reports from the Help menu in Pd-extended.  
Please file a bug report for this.


> -----------------
>
> 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.

please file bug reports for each of these.

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

Yeah, that's been around a lot time.

>
> -----------------
>
> 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 :) )

The goal is to fine bugs and fix them :).  Some of the bigger well- 
known problems will have to wait until the next release. The  
externals in the plist should work without a namespace prefix.  All  
included externals should work.

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


Thanks for your bug reports and your work with Pd!

.hc

>
> eni
>



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