2012/8/5 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: > We currently have a broken supercollider in testing, and the freeze > means 3.5.3 will not migrate automatically. > > Dan, since you are the most knowledgeable on SC matters, could you > prepare a message on why do we prefer 3.5.x instead of 3.4.x for > wheezy? I can think of: > > 1. Widgets (are the new qt-widgets source-compatible with the older > java-based ones?) > 2. No more scons. > > Any other important stuff?
Important issues with SuperCollider 3.4.x in debian wheezy, that motivate transitioning directly to 3.5.x: * SC 3.4.x relied optionally on a third-party java-based kit ("SwingOSC") to provide for building user interface widgets. (This provides standard server- and addon-management interfaces as well as user-made GUIs. It's not compulsory to have GUIs but it's typically assumed in tutorials and the official book.) This was never packaged for debian, so the provision is kinda incomplete. SC 3.5 includes a QT-based widget system which provides all of this functionality and with the same programming interface. It's very nice. * The GEdit plugin "sced" has been updated to support GEdit version 3, which is what is in wheezy. (We previously just deactivated the gedit plugin in wheezy which is a shame as it's a recommended editor for beginners.) * The old and overgrown SCons build system has been removed in favour of Cmake. Requires much less downstream packaging effort. * User config files are moved to a much more XDG-friendly location: instead of ~/share/supercollider it's now ~/.local/share/SuperCollider and ~/.config/SuperCollider. (Old config is detected and migration info is output.) There are many other changes - it's a major release of SC - news for 3.5 is at http://doc.sccode.org/Guides/News-3_5.html This OK? Dan _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers