Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-23 Thread Anderson Goulart
Well, Too many messages for this morning... later responses will come... i think we are getting closer to a team work.. :D Just to point out something interesting.. the notes below has a good workflow strategy to deal with packaging on the source. The main idea is create branches with the files f

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-23 Thread dmotd
tim, yup with you all the way here, i've been chatting a bit to mescalinum about his work with gentoo too, and i'm pretty sure we're all after the same goal. cheers, dmotd Tim Jones wrote: > > pd-extended could be assembled from parts as a > > meta package, there's no issue there. > > I gues

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread dmotd
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > dmotd wrote: >> dmotd wrote: >>> please make sure you cc pd-dev too! >> >> oh i'm sorry, it seems that something is wrong with my mail delivery - >> i checked the archives and messages recieved only to my personal inbox >> did make it to pd-dev i just didn't recieve t

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Jones
> pd-extended could be assembled from parts as a > meta package, there's no issue there. I guess my point is that, if I download the pd-extended tarball, it is not easy at all to assemble it as a series of parts, not as easy and efficient as it could be. At the very least, I think there needs to b

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:04 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: i agree (and honestly i don't think a CPAN-like system will happen anytime soon). It will happen as soon as someone does it. :D I don't think anyone objects to the idea, right? well, like always - i d

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: i agree (and honestly i don't think a CPAN-like system will happen anytime soon). It will happen as soon as someone does it. :D I don't think anyone objects to the idea, right? well, like always - i do :-) i agree with dmotd, that such a thing has to be tho

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:38 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: 2) remove "m_pd.h" from externals and use (why do I need to have PD source to compile my external? This should be installed as any other library and linked with -l option; the m_pd.h should be installe

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
dmotd wrote: dmotd wrote: please make sure you cc pd-dev too! oh i'm sorry, it seems that something is wrong with my mail delivery - i checked the archives and messages recieved only to my personal inbox did make it to pd-dev i just didn't recieve them from pd-dev and some messages from pd

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: 2) remove "m_pd.h" from externals and use (why do I need to have PD source to compile my external? This should be installed as any other library and linked with -l option; the m_pd.h should be installed on /usr/include also) sounds good hmm, Debian's offici

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
First off, just to be clear, I don't think anyone wants to keep the big monolithic build system or the package. Its a big hack/kludge that is not maintainable going forward. I answered some other random questions below as well. On Sep 21, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Anderson Goulart wrote: And

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread dmotd
dmotd wrote: > please make sure you cc pd-dev too! oh i'm sorry, it seems that something is wrong with my mail delivery - i checked the archives and messages recieved only to my personal inbox did make it to pd-dev i just didn't recieve them from pd-dev and some messages from pd-dev never made

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread dmotd
Steffen Juul wrote: > > On 21/09/2009, at 16.59, dmotd wrote: > >> or pehaps pd could go down the path of perl/cpan, >> php/pear etc, where extra non-base libs are housed >> in a dedicated on demand server where users can >> automagically fetch / compile and install extras >> outside of the confine

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread dmotd
nice to see a lot of discussion, i can't fathom replying to the various threads happening here as i am fairly time poor at present, but i thought i'd take the time to make my position as clear as possible before getting mixed up with any particular argument. apologies if i become a bit verbos

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-22 Thread dmotd
please make sure you cc pd-dev too! Anderson Goulart wrote: > Hello dmotd, > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, dmotd wrote: > > i guess i understand where you're coming from and > in some ways i think you are right, however > packaging debs is not as simple as it seems and > w

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Tim Jones
So with a couple of perhaps narrow-minded rants out of the way, I would like now to respond to dmotd. > > i guess i understand where you're coming from and > in some ways i think you are right, however > packaging debs is not as simple as it seems and > with the sheer size of the externals repo wh

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Tim Jones
Sorry I lurk too much and forget I have to reply-to-all to mailing lists on gmail. Looks like my message has been completely in Anderson's response earlier. >> I understand the motivation for pd-extended is to just fork to a >> stable version. Is this the only reason? Why not just release stable,

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Anderson Goulart
Hello Tim, On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > I've been tweaking a pd-extended Gentoo ebuild for personal use for > the last few weeks. It makes more sense to me to package extensions > etc. (maybe just "addons" more generally) separately. > > Actually I now wonder, why even hav

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Anderson Goulart
Hello dmotd, On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, dmotd wrote: > i guess i understand where you're coming from and > in some ways i think you are right, however > packaging debs is not as simple as it seems and > with the sheer size of the externals repo what you > are suggesting would get quite unm

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Anderson Goulart
Hi Hans, On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Hey Anderson, > > Its good timing for bringing these up, Günter has stopped maintaining his > official Debian packages, so they are officially orphaned right now. Anyone > here a Debian Developer? I am starting the pro

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Steffen Juul
On 21/09/2009, at 16.59, dmotd wrote: or pehaps pd could go down the path of perl/cpan, php/pear etc, where extra non-base libs are housed in a dedicated on demand server where users can automagically fetch / compile and install extras outside of the confines of a package manager. how much wo

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread dmotd
i guess i understand where you're coming from and in some ways i think you are right, however packaging debs is not as simple as it seems and with the sheer size of the externals repo what you are suggesting would get quite unmanageable. for the record, i am currently working on a slightly re

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey Anderson, Its good timing for bringing these up, Günter has stopped maintaining his official Debian packages, so they are officially orphaned right now. Anyone here a Debian Developer? I am starting the process of becoming a Debian Developer (and I'll be helping to run DebCof 2010 in

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread Anderson Goulart
Hello IOhannes, thanks for your answer... On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > Anderson Goulart wrote: > >> Hello all, >> > > puredata-ext-XX - package containing a single external >> puredata-abs-XX - package containing a single abstraction >> > > why do you want to se

Re: [PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-21 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Anderson Goulart wrote: Hello all, puredata-ext-XX - package containing a single external puredata-abs-XX - package containing a single abstraction why do you want to separate them? how does a "single external" differ (substantially) from a "single abstraction"? (esp. since .deb takes care

[PD-dev] deb packages discussion

2009-09-20 Thread Anderson Goulart
Hello all, I am new to this list but met Hans and others at ISCL in Brazil a few weeks ago. Maybe this subject was discussed earlier, and if so, please forgive me. I was looking through pd-extended build farm, scripts and compilation stuff. A good idea, actually, but difficult to maintain or dis