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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

> Thanks for your investigations and bug reports - that is important work.

I'm more than glab to be able to help this way, unfortuntely I can't do
more and fix the code myself. Not yet at least :)

cheers



2015-06-07 23:07 GMT-03:00 Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>:

> Hi Alexandre,
>
> Thanks for your investigations and bug reports - that is important work.
>
> On 08/06/15 05:40, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> > But I'd still like to know if anyone can fix this. I'm not sure how the
> > authorship works in this particular example. I know it's an "extra"
> > feature in vanilla, not maintained by miller, and it has a different
> > license than Pd's.
>
> The license is LGPL so it is compatible.
>
> The last bugfix in expr~ was made by Miller on Sun Oct 12, 2014 and
> specifically references a Source Forge ticket somebody filed, so I don't
> think "not maintained by miller" is accurate.
>
> As IOhannes said, a helpful thing would be filing these issues in the
> tracker at Source Forge and that will hopefully result in the bug
> getting fixed.
>
> Even more helpful would be if you forked the Pd git repository, fixed
> the bug, and then sent a patch to Miller. :)
>
> git://git.code.sf.net/p/pure-data/pure-data
>
> > Well, maybe I could generalize this issue to any other objects and
> > libraries, because I see many of them marked as being maintained by some
> > people, but they don't really seem to be so in the real world. Another
> > example is that I pointed a bug about [partconv~] to the
> > author/maintainer and he said he was aware of it but "didn't have time
> > to work on it"... so, can they all be fixed and maintained by anyone?
> > should we revise the externals and libraries to see if we see new
> > maintainers or mark them as unmaintained?
>
> Anybody is free to update the code. At the moment there is some friction
> because you need to have access to the SVN repository on Source Forge. I
> hope it will become easier to just externals fork code, modify it, host
> it wherever you like as mentioned in a different thread.
>
> This would make it easier when an external like [partconv~] is abandoned
> - you could fork it, change it, build and upload new binaries for users
> of the external with your fix.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
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