So for doing Debian packages of Pd we could either elect someone to create portaudio packages that match our needs, or we'd need to make Pd run with PA 0.18, as provided with Debian. Choose your poison!
pa18: portaudio api1 pa19: portaudio api2 please note, that it's portaudio 18, not 0.18!
All I did was check in portmidi where Miller had overlooked it. Currently the way the "pd" section is set up is a mirror of Miller's development enviroment. It will only makes our lives more complicated if the CVS does not mirror Miller's development environment as much as possible (sadly ASIO can't be included, maybe we should replace ASIO with DirectSound support? DirectSound included in MinGW.)
i guess, you've done extensive tests that verify that directsound gives as good latency results as asio?