Hello Roger and René, 2010/5/3 Roger Dannenberg <r...@cs.cmu.edu>: > Hello all, > I did some work on Python bindings for PortMidi in November, but I don't > use them and I've forgotten exactly what state things are in. Based on the > pm_python/README files, the PortMidi distribution has working code for > Python 2.6 and Python 3.1.1 on Linux, OS X., and Windows, with the exception > of the (Python 3.1/OS X) combination. If there are patches I should know > about, or there's anything I can help with, please let me know. I think LGPL > is more restrictive than PortMidi's license, so I don't think I can just > incorporate or release an LGPL version in the PortMidi SourceForge > distribution, so that might account for some differences.
Well, the original author wants it to be the same license as PortMidi. It's BSD. Pygame can incorporate some BSD-licensed code in its code base, since BSD is less restrictive than LGPL. (as far as I know) > It would help me to hear more specific information about differences. > E.g. "the pygame version is better because..." or "portmidi's release is > good except for ...". My recollection is that there are a number of minor > problems in PyPortMidi in areas like error handling and reporting, but I > didn't want to make big changes to the API that would break exsiting code, > so I left things as they were. I think they are fixed in both Pygame and in my repository. (since I copy-pasted the code from Pygame) Attached is a diff between pygame's trunk version, and my version. I only added some comments and changed the version number. My only goal was to package it for Debian and Ubuntu. I think the users should not need to install the whole python-pygame in order to do some MIDI with Python, though. Regards, Alexandre > -Roger > > > Alexandre Quessy wrote: > > 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/
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