Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I didn't realize that the Debian packages were being updated (Not that I am faulting Guenter at all, Pd-extended was built upon his work). The newest "pd-externals" and "pd-zexy" packages that I see are both from 2004-06-25. The "puredata" package is more up-to-date than Pd-extended. "gem" seems up to date, and PDP hasn't changed in a long while, so "pd-pdp" is up to date. pidip is missing from Debian tho.
If you go outside of Debian repositories, you can get some up-to-date stuff here: http://sindominio.net/~caedes/debian/readme
i don't know which apt-repository you are using, but mine is etch/sid (standard debian), and they give me: puredata: 0.39.2-1 pd-zexy: 2.1-2 (which is from 2005-08-16) gem: 1:0.90.0-18 (which is the last stable release, though rather old...my fault)
i have to admit, that my "currency" was based on a quick glance at the zexy version number, which is rather recent...
My point in all this is that hopefully we can get the Debian packages generated from Pd-extended also, so that we can join forces on all this building grunt work. I believe Frank has started. I am hoping that
yes that would be really great. i was recently thinking of a pd-netinstaller, which would download and install collections of objects on demand, rather than having one huge pd-extended which provides all. (for those who have fat connectivity and want to get all at once, we can still provide the "ISO-image"...)
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