On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:04 AM, David Plans Casal wrote:
On 14 Mar 2006, at 11:00, Tim Blechmann wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:20 +0000, David Plans Casal wrote:
I don't necessarily agree with that. Perhaps 'imports' isn't the right word, but the fact that a library isn't required to run Pd at all might not be a good enough reason not to include it in an extended build system, especially if it is kept completely apart from the main tree.
still, why not just write a small script to pull the external sources from upstream? (ftp, cvs, svn or whatever)
I would rather see that too, of course. Has hc not explained why he -isn't- doing that already?
Its been discussed quite a bit. There are many reasons:
- Debian auto-builders don't allow network access
- CVS is a far better system for managing code than any script we'll write
- "cvs import" is designed for exactly this purpose
- when using dev libraries, like portaudio, etc, its good that we know which version to compile against, since sometimes Pd will only work with a very specific version, which often isn't marked by anything but a CVS commit date.
and more...
.hc
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