On second thought, would you prefer that I just update teh sources into a
branch here?  (In case any names got changed or whatnot it might confuse
a merge attempt).

M

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:17:26AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> OK.. I had meant to check for new portaudio/portmidi updates for this release
> and just plain forgot.  So if it's easy to pull the new stuff in I'm OK with
> trying to do it swiftly.  And yes, that probably will merit one last test
> version.
> 
> If you can get to that today I'll then put the test release out tonight
> California time.
> 
> cheers
> M
> 
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 07:58:39PM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> > It should be relatively easy to do the update and I think there could be 
> > some major advantages.
> > 
> > For instance, I notice now that unplug handling for mac was added to 
> > portaudio in 2016 so I probably didn't need to make a manual fix after all 
> > (although I think my solution is more elegant). This means the version in 
> > the repo now is older than 2016 and I could imagine the current stable 
> > version includes fixes for things like bad strings crashing the Pd gui on a 
> > Japanese Windows system.
> > 
> > I also know there was a good amount of work on portmidi for the latest 
> > major release of Audacity. Probably good things there too.
> > 
> > I'm relatively sure it should be ok and I can easily bring in the local 
> > changes we need, but of course it would be safest to have at least 1 test 
> > release for people to try. I can do it pretty soon in a separate branch, 
> > maybe tonight so I too can get it out of the way for now. :)
> > 
> > > On Sep 22, 2018, at 6:33 PM, Miller Puckette <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Dan -
> > > 
> > > I'm hoping to get 0.49 out over the weekend, certainly by Thursday AM when
> > > I start teaching with it - selfish I suppose, but I have a whole library
> > > using eh savestate feature, and I'm really tired of students opening the
> > > same patch 3 times and getting confused, and the deep undo feature is way
> > > way overdue.
> > > 
> > > Are any of the portaudio/portmidi changes urgent, or can they wait for a
> > > 0.49-1 or even a 0.50 release (former case, in 2 or 3 weeks as a 
> > > bug-fixer;
> > > latter case, January or February) ?
> > > 
> > > cheers
> > > Miller
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 04:35:50PM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> > >> I will try to update Pd's included copy of portaudio and portmidi. I 
> > >> know from another project that the portaudio device string handling has 
> > >> been improved (on macOS at least) and longer names are no longer 
> > >> truncated.
> > >> 
> > >> One issue with doing this is I've made some changes to both libs in 
> > >> order to fix things we've found in Pd. These have been forwarded 
> > >> upstream but I'm not sure if they are in any of the newer stable 
> > >> releases. My plan is pull out of these that we still need into separate 
> > >> patch files and either write a script for updating both libs and/or 
> > >> simple instructions on updating and applying any patches. This way we 
> > >> don't have to worry about losing any hard-won fixes while still being 
> > >> able to upgrade with new Pd releases. This approach is similar to that 
> > >> I've taken with applying the key fixes to TK 8.5.19 for the mac app 
> > >> build.
> > >> 
> > >> I'll try to get to this in the next few days.
> > >> 
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> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
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