Hello René, Thanks for your quick answer! We have not done anything more than in the Pygame version. That means that you have everything in your hands to push it upstream, if it has not been done already. We only needed a working Debian package, that's it.
So, right now, what is the right way to get PyPortMidi under Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux? I think it should be shipped with the libportmidi0 package, no? a 2010/5/3 René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > as far as I know, I've been the only one distributing binaries and making > patches for a while. Tim Thompson also made some changes before that, and > before that I don't think there was anything since 2005. > > I asked to redistribute those bindings under the LGPL - like how pygame is > licenced. Usually it's good form to ask permission to re-licence > something. I also told John that all changes we made could go back into > pyportmidi. It's nice to contribute back to projects you use :) > > You might want to consider using the python wrappers as well. Since that > provides an API that follows python style (pep8), and a lot more > documentation comments. > > Is there anything different in your version from what the pygame version > has? Would be nice to track any changes. > > We did a lot of cross platform work, on osx/windows/linux etc. You should > be able to take the portmidi specific stuff from the pygame > config(link/include flags etc). As well, you may want to use the same build > environment we use on windows to make binaries. Another option, might be to > just use the pyportmidi.pyd from pygame on windows, if you don't mind > copying in the binary manually. > > Another thing to note, is to use cython on the pyx file if you want python 3 > support. > > > hope that helps. > > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Alexandre Quessy <alexan...@quessy.net> > wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> My name is Alexandre Quessy, and I am a free audio-video software >> developer from Montreal. I have put together the changes in pyportmidi >> that the Pygame developers and some people from an other project had >> done. I needed a Debian/Ubuntu package for the Scenic on which I work. >> (from the SAT - Society for Arts and Technology) I put the resulting >> code in a repository online at http://bitbucket.org/aalex/pyportmidi >> >> The original author of pyportmidi - John Harrison - told me that it >> would be best if the Python bindings for portmidi were distributed >> with PortMidi. He has updated the license text to something that would >> make it using the same license as PortMidi. >> http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison/images/license.txt >> >> It seems like the version in the portmidi SVN is less recent. It >> doesn't contain the fixes I had put together. Let's compare them: >> >> http://portmedia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/portmedia/portmidi/trunk/pm_python/pypm.pyx?view=markup >> http://bitbucket.org/aalex/pyportmidi/src/f84ec7fa21ad/pypm.pyx >> >> It seems, though, that my version doesn't build well on Windows. I >> don't have access to any Windows computer, so maybe someone could try >> it and tell me if it works or not. I am not the guy that has done the >> changes to the Pyrex code itself, though, I have just done a merge of >> several versions, and packaged it for Debian, together with my >> collegue Simon Piette. >> >> Attached to this wiki page, there is a patch that fixes the most major >> bug we had on Ubuntu with pyPortMidi: >> https://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/scenic/wiki/pyPortMidi >> Here is a direct link to the patch: >> >> https://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/scenic/raw-attachment/wiki/pyPortMidi/pypm-pmnoerror.diff >> That bugfix was applied iin the mercurial repository on Bitbucket, >> plus the changes that were made in Pygame. >> >> http://svn.seul.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/trunk/src/pypm.pyx?view=markup&root=PyGame >> >> So, who is responsible for managing the Python bindings in PortMidi? >> What can I do to help speeding up the process of pushing that bug fix >> upstream? >> Thanks! >> -- >> Alexandre Quessy >> http://alexandre.quessy.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> media_api mailing list >> media_api@create.ucsb.edu >> http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api > > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net/ _______________________________________________ media_api mailing list media_api@create.ucsb.edu http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api
