[PD] call for testing on the nightly builds!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 17, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Enrique Erne wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ah i forgot that the file inside the app is not save-able
>
>
>>>
>>> -----------------
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> i wrote a bug report for iem_t3
>
> i'm not sure about the hexloader. i found this:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=1637460&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> should i file a new bug report?



hexloader should be included in tomorrow's build.  Please test it.   
The t3 stuff should be in today's build.

.hc




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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.
>> please file bug reports for each of these.
>
> done
>
>
>>>
>>> -----------------
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> uhm . now i filed bug reports for helpfiles of externals that are  
> not on the plist. but they work with namespace prefix (except iem_t3)
>
>>> -----------------
>>>
>>> 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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