On Mar 3, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:29 +0100, Thomas Grill wrote:
I'm against managing foreign plugins or apps in the Pd CVS. With an open application like Pd, where an external can be made to load *everything*, there just is no stopping point, once we start to do this.
Hi all, that is also my point of view. There should be no resources in the CVS that can be aquired elsewhere.
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.
I still see no reason why we should not use CVS to manage "foreign" sources. We already are in a lot of places and it works quite well. We need to use a lot of code that is far from released in building Pd. That means we have to manage source code. CVS is a good tool for managing source code, we all know how to use it, (many of us don't use python or scons at all), and even has built-in support for managing foreign sources. Check out the "Tracking Third-Party Sources" section in the CVS manual:
http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.12.13/cvs_13.html#SEC106
Really it comes down to this: How are you guys harmed if I choose to manage some "foreign" sources in the Pd CVS?
.hc
cheers ... tim
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