[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc1 released

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 19, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> Hans has said several times in the past that he has no interest at  
>> all
>> to work on pd-packages separated like you sugest, so I believe, this
>> would only apply for packages maintained somewhere/by someone else,
>> like GridFlow.
>
> If you do a svn checkout of pure-data externals, it should download  
> a gridflow folder, but it seems that there is a bug in svn about  
> the setting the svn:externals property on the externals folder (I  
> hope that it doesn't have to do with the name coïncidence). so, on  
> at least one existing checkout, an update would tell the recent  
> revision number of the last commit, yet did not even try to  
> download GridFlow. At least I didn't forget to commit the propset  
> (but then I wonder how to commit a propset without committing file  
> modifs... especially file modifs of a whole folder)

Unless you plan on integrating your release cycle with Pd-extended, I  
don't think it makes much sense to use the svn:externals link.  If  
you want to include Gridflow in Pd-extended,  it would make much more  
sense to include released versions of the source in the SVN.

.hc



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