On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> The thing that holds back Pd-extended is that very few people help to >> work on a proper release cycle, meaning make a release branch, do >> lots of testing, and fix the bugs. With more help, this would go >> faster. I just didn't want to release with showstopper bugs. Sadly >> I had to, Gem on GNU/Linux new ATI cards is almost unusable, as Roman >> can attest. > > Well, that's what I'm talking about: bugs in one part like Gem will > hold up everything else. It's like pd-extended-huge is trying to grab > that magical moment in time, when everything works. And even that is > not consistent: IIR the Gem in pd-extended is much newer than the Pd > in pd-extended. So on one hand everthing may fall apart again when > starting to work on whatever is considered version number 0.40, on the > other hand it seems an arbitrary decision which versions of certain > components get chosen. > > And then, assuming somebody can fix Gem on Ati cards, it's not easily > possible to upgrade just Gem in Pd-extended's monolithic build. > >> Also, I don't switch to Miller's next version till he's done with the >> bugfix releases. It's a lot of work to switch to new sources from >> Miller, and even more to try to track his changes. > > Okay, I can understand that and it sounds sensible.
That said, if someone else wants to speed up the cycle, and start working against miller's code, then they should step right up! :D And as an experiment, I made a new autobuild called "pd-main+libs", which is Pd straight from the HEAD of MAIN and the rest of Pd- extended. None of the patches are included tho, so it shouldn't be considered "Pd-extended", though it's labeled that way (Pd-0.41.0- extended-20071027-debian-testing-i386.deb). This will only build on GNU/Linux. I need to patch Miller's sources in order to make builds on Windows and Mac OS X. .hc > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ > ______footils.org__ > > _______________________________________________ > PD-dev mailing list > PD-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.... -John Donne _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev