So one of the things that Miller said that is necessary before putting the pd sources into CVS is a suite of regression test. Since there is already development going on, I think that we should start developing regression tests. I think this could be done by creating patches that do a lot of things, then output a text result. Then a Makefile could run them using pd -nogui to test them.
I am motivated by the fact that pd devel_0_36 from CVS has some key bugs in it on my Linux box. There are two clear demonstrations of the problems: the first is that the bold border around a message doesn't go away after I click on the message. All of the message I click get stuck with this bold border around them. Also bangs stop displaying after displaying once. And the second problem is demonstrated by maxlib's [velocity]. When I use it with the CVS pd, the only thing it outputs is "nan". When I reverted to the "pd" package using apt-get, all of the above problems disappeared. When I get more time, I can do a thorough bug report if anyone is interested.
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