On Dec 27, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
However I don't want to put any work into pd-0.38 anymore,
I understand that. It would be worth it if we had an unlimited supply
of volunteers, but... ;-)
Pd 0.39 has significant changes that are not backwards compatible. I
don't use it yet for that reasons, as with many others. The aim for
the Pd-extended distros is to have a stable package which works as
smoothly as possible. Think Debian-stable. I don't think 0.39 is up
to that yet, especially when you consider all of the externals, docs,
abstractions, and patches to Pd that are included in Pd-extended.
.hc
A problem still is, that Hans' main makefile isn't yet ready to be
used only partially. That is, "make all" works fine, but "make only_part_of_all" often doesn't.That's not very important for building debian packages, because you can build everything and still make .deb's out of smaller parts. Is it an annoyance beyond just taking longer to compile? What happens if some library can't be compiled for some reason? (e.g. bug in compiler)
As Demudi and Ubuntu use the Pd-packages from Debian upstream both
don't create additional work.I might give Ubuntu a try next time I install a Linux distro somewhere... which may come sooner than I think (it won't be on my own computer though).
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