[PD] expr "copysign" function doesn't seem to work

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

I got nothing against the bug tracker, and I'll report it soon, let me just
test all the functions carefully.

thanks for the info

cheers

2015-06-07 19:38 GMT-03:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:

> If you don’t want to use the bug tracker, it makes sense to write up a
> list of expr bugs you’ve found and move the discussion to pd-dev. I think
> everyone can agree that finding and fixing said bugs is a good thing we
> would all want to see happen.
>
> Nutshell: yes, we can fix it and update it. This is open source which
> means everyone has the source code, so anyone can download it and modify it
> to their hearts content. Getting the work back “upstream” into the
> repository simply means it needs to be done in a way where others can test
> the updates to verify them. This often does not rely on the original
> author, especially if they have moved on to others things, but to the
> maintainers or current people with write access to the repo.
>
> Licensing wise, that has been cleared up more than a year ago and it was
> only an issue where a couple of old headers hadn’t been removed from the
> files. “Licensing” in this case was only to clarify which license the
> sources actually had since there were two different ones listed in
> different places. Both were open source licenses which do not place
> restrictions on who and what can be updated.
>
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> On Jun 7, 2015, at 5:49 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>
> *From: *Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **Re: [PD] expr "copysign" function doesn't seem to work*
> *Date: *June 7, 2015 at 5:17:00 PM EDT
> *To: *Jan Baumgart <raga.raga at gmx.de>
> *Cc: *"pd-list at lists.iem.at" <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
>
>
> Well, I'm worried about the bugs in expr and that they get fixed actually,
> there are more bugs I found by the way. Now Shahrokh doesn't seem to be
> working on it and making updates anymore. I remember I complained about
> something in 2009 to him and it never got fixed. I could list them all as
> well, but I won't make a bug report if it can't be fixed...
>
> So, what could we do? Could we just fix it and update it? Or does he have
> to do it?
>
> I remember some issues regarding its license as well, but never really
> understood them, maybe the license issue prevents people from updating it?
>
>
>
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