Em qui., 17 de dez. de 2020 às 06:07, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at escreveu:
## else the problem here is that there is a lot of platform independent data (e.g. a 5+MB-file of of white noise; wtf?), duplicated across all package versions and all platforms.
What do you mean about that? what's the white noise?
a typical package of else is about 30MB (zipped). this does not seem too much, but given that there are 10 different architectures supported by else (and each is shipped in a separate package) and your upload rate is >3 per month (for each package!), the numbers just sum up.
yeah, it's a lot, but it's 9 architectures and for the year I've released (so far) 9 of them (27=>35), and I was trying to have 7 versions uploaded when we hit the issue. So, well, 30 x 7 x 9 => about 1.9BG, yikes! The release rate got pretty high in the last 2 months cause I was teaching a course and really dove into this.
i accept that this is to a certain extend a problem with the deken infrastructure (namely: not being able to specify dependencies).
it's also due to my insisting that you do not remove releases from puredata.info.
but i think we need to do something about it.
@porres for the time being i would like to ask you to:
- remove the live-electronics-tutorial from the "else" distribution
until you do a proper release.
- merge multiple architectures into a single package (e.g. you could
have a package containing Darwin-amd64-32, Darwin-i386-32, Linux-amd64-32, Linux-i386-32, Linux-arm64-32 and Linux-armv8-32; and probably Windows-i386-32 and Windows-amd64-32 too, but i didn't test as the current uploads are broken) this requires some changes in your build pipeline, as you would need to use arch-specific suffixes (e.g.
l_i386for Linux-i386-32) rather than the generic OS-specific ones (pd_linuxfor all the Linux archs). as there we currently don't have different suffixes for the various 32bit arm variants, you would still need to package these separately)as an immediate remedy, i would even like to ask you to remove old alpha-releases (and it breaks my heart to say that).
Ok, I'll see how to build and upload this in a better way, joining up at all raspberries versions (maybe removing one or another, cause I have FOUR right now and maybe that's just silly and not needed), both linuxes and both windowses...
I had the compromise to keep around 5 of the last versions around. So I removed the one I was trying to upload and will hold it and try to do this in the new way. I removed one of the lasts and I'm keeping 5 old versions so far.
cheers