Why do things only sink in after I've pressed 'send'? :-) Hans is saying it ([pool] and other flext stuff) is in the official PD-extended releases, just not in the auto-builds. So it's not so bad for re-distribution after all; one just has to be careful with using the auto builds, because that wipes out the flext binaries.
Phil
It's not as obvious as you might think from the archive. I searched quite a while before I posted my question. One would have to know to search on "flext + pd-extended" to find the threads you're indicating.
Someone looking to use Memento (which requires [pool]), might not know this whole history about incompatible build systems for flext-based objects, and its implications for using [pool].I'm in no way complaining about PD-extended and all the work that has gone into it, neither am I dissing the wonderful [pool] (or other flext objects) -- I realize there's no simple solution here, either. It's just another obstacle to building objects that non-PD/SVN experts can use, however. For instance, I'd like to upgrade my [polywavesynth]'s state-saving from sssad to Memento (since I'm already OSC-enabled) -- but this will complicate distribution greatly.
Thanks again for the pointer to the binaries, Thomas. Getting some of the "everybody already knows this" knowledge about flext-based objects into PDPedia would be very helpful.
Phil
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
flext-based things are not built from source as part of Pd-extended.
Binaries are only included in the releases. Check the archives about this, there is lots of discussion..hc
On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Phil Stone wrote:
Hi Hans,
I may be misunderstanding, but are you saying it's in the officially released version of PD-extended, and not the nightly builds? (If so, why?)
I plopped the darwin [pool] binary Thomas pointed at into my "flatspace" dirctory (is there a better place?), and so far, so good. Now to figure out Memento and rradical!
Phil
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jan 1, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
I can't seem to find [pool] in my latest download of PD-extended (0.40.3-extended-20071204, Intel Mac). I see help files and some docs for it, but no PD object -- is there an OS X i86 version of it in any of the builds, or am I looking in the wrong place?
Hi, up-to-date versions of all my externals for Windows and OSX (UB) can be found at http://grrrr.org/ext/beta
You could also just copy the binaries out of the Pd-extended release, if you want that specific version.
.hc
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