Hi list,
most of the development of pd, gem and the externals is taking place in the cvs nowadays. This a good thing on the one hand, because it allows for a non-centralized and transparent software development. On the other hand, it is not so cool, because it makes it pretty hard for the average user to get the latest version of this or that external with all these cool new features ... With average user, I refer to people with no permanent internet connection (which is bad when one has to hunt down a specific version of a specific library which in turn depends on a ton of other specific libraries) and who do not necessarily use linux (sources? compiling? where's the installer? MinGW? what the ... ?). These people are forced to use rather old versions. To give an example: the latest GEM build for win is about a year old ... and there were some very interesting additions recently, like advanced movement detection, freeframe-plugins and so on. It would be great if we could establish something like an instant build system that builds fresh version straight from the cvs automagically once a month or something like this. Something similar was working for the xvid mpeg4 codec a while ago, and it was very much appreciated by the community. Needless to say, the usage of these versions would be completely unsupported and "at your own risk", but I guess that the average non-self-compiler could live with this. In any case, more people would use fresh versions, which will probably lead to faster bug detection and all other sorts of benefits ...
with kind regards, Thoralf.
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