On Mar 18, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Worst comes to worst, Pd and Pd-extended runs best on Debian-based
distros like Debian, Ubuntu, pure:dyne, etc. .hcpd-extended might work on pure:dyne (after all, it's Debian with
extra packages), but it won't ever be in the live distro, and
installing it will remove all the supported pd externals from
pure:dyne (they depend on puredata, which pd-extended conflicts
with, or should if it has been packaged properly).One of the main reasonings behind Pd in pure:dyne is to package each
library on its own, to avoid both the maintenance nightmares of a
huge package build system and the tricky timing involved to get "all
externals working at once". Each package can be tested separately
and upgraded separately, increasing quality and saving bandwidth.
I think that's the way that Pd-extended should be packaged for Debian
too. The monolithic package is not a good design, but was easy to
do. We were talking a while back about merging efforts, I think it
would be great to revisit that discussion.
Then the next step would be getting those packages into Debian. It
seems Guenter has stopped updating his Debian packages, 'puredata' is
at 0.40.3, pd-externals is no longer in the repo, etc.
BTW, pure:dyne has packages for pdp + friends, with no
pdp_metro_setup issue:$ nm -D /usr/lib/pd/extra/pdp/pdp.pd_linux | grep metro 0000f9f0 T pdp_metro_setup
So I guess the original issue is another pd-extended bug.
Yeah, on Fedora only though. I don't use Fedora at all so I am at a
loss. PDP works fine in Pd-extended on Ubuntu and Debian.
.hc
Claude
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