On Mar 5, 2006, at 5:42 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:20 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
right ... if one would want to automate a build process, it can
easily
be done by adding the command to acquire the resources to the build system ... (doing that with scons seems to be trivial)
There is one major caveat to doing that: it will not work at all with the Debian auto-builders. No network access allowed.
having no idea about the debian auto-builders (gentoo ebuilds rely on network access), i'd then suggest a simple script in the language of your choice to set up the builder environment
- check out the pd sources from sf
- check out the revision controlled sources (e.g. portaudio) by tag,
branch or date
- download the tarballs of the released sources from the web
this way you can be sure, to have the latest pd sources and the external sources, that you consider as stable, i guess, that's what you want, isn't it? but then the one, who decides, which version/tag/branch/date to use (which would apply to both ways) should check the bug reports with upstream, to avoid duplicate work ...
nevertheless ... from what i understand, you are not working on devel so i guess, we're working on different sources anyway ... so do what you think it's right ... i think the last few monthes have shown, that we won't agree on this topic ...
This isn't just about the "pd" part of the repository, but all of it. We all use "externals". I have nothing against pd-devel, but there are so many changes which make it hard to work with in terms of a build system (like moving configure from pd/src/ to pd) that I didn't want to devote the time to a whole other mess of build system issues. Regular pd has enough of those issues for a lifetime. Its sad that we are generating more issues rather than working together to fix them.
As for the simple script to set up the build environment, I choose to use a script called "cvs". It works really well for managing source code, its widely understood and used, and it very stable and mature.
.hc
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