[PD] enhance pd-extended with pd-l2ork featues ?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Tue Jan 22 17:30:22 CET 2013


pd-extended should use puredata-utils, but it doesn't yet.  It will in the
next release.  Nothing requires puredata-utils, its optional.

.hc

On 01/22/2013 11:16 AM, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
> AFAIK I use pd-l2ork exclusively, not pd. I f you find it anywhere that I'm
> not using that please let me know so I can fix it.
> 
> I need to check whether pdsend/receive is indeed identical before making
> any calls on that matter. Even then if one has to uninstall pd-utils due to
> conflict with pd-L2ork what would that mean to the rest of the install as
> far as pd-extended is concerned? Would it still work, or is pd-utils a
> dependency (as far as I can tell it should be a dependency because
> otherwise pd wouldn't work without it)?
> On Jan 22, 2013 10:46 AM, "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> 
> On 2013-01-22 16:30, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Pd-l2ork indeed has its own folder (including pd-l2ork-externals in
>>>> home folder and settings file). The conflict is in the /usr/bin/
>>>> folder with binaries that share the same name but not necessarily
>>>> code-base (I think pdsend/pdreceive and something else,
>>>> IIRC--cannot remember off top my head).
> 
> since i trust that you haven't done anything to pdsend/pdreceive, i
> guess it is save to simple use the debian-package "puredata-utils"
> instead of providing your own.
> alternatively, you can make your package conflict with
> "puredata-utils", in order to avoid the conflict.
> 
> the other thing that comes to my mind is obviously "pd" itself.
> i guess you are using "pd-l2ork" as binary name, so this wouldn't be a
> problem.
> (but if indeed you do use "pd" as the binary name, i suggest to switch
> to "pd-l2ork" instead and eventually provide an alternative diversion
> from pd to pd-l2ork, using the "update-alternatives" mechanism)
> 
> fgamsdr
> IOhannes
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