Did someone write some tests for some Pd flavor? That'd be a nice development.
Pd-extended's test suite consists of loading every object, and loading every help patch. They are scripts in SVN: scripts/load_every_object.sh and scripts/tests/ They have been quite helpful in finding issues. .hc Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: > Before you pay someone to do it, we need to define what "it" is. > > "It" might generally look something like this: > 1) Pull from the newest stable upstream code > > 2) Get it to compile > 3) Run the regression tests > 4) Make alpha and beta builds, gather reports of bugs, fix bugs, re-run tests > 5) Release > > So for Pd-extended, one would pull from the newest stable Vanilla source. > > > To complete #2 and #4, one need build environments for all of Pd-extended's > target platforms. Probably the easiest way to achieve that is to partner > with two other developers-- for example, if one uses Ubuntu, find an OSX > person and a Windows person who can build Pd on their respective OSes. > (There are guides on puredata.info about how to do this for each platform.) > > > Pd-extended doesn't have any tests AFAICT, so skip that step. > > Kickstarter won't really help you here. It's possible that it would give > some incentive for doing a single release, but how can it sustain that work > for the next release, or the one after that? > > -Jonathan > > On Sunday, September 21, 2014 5:22 PM, me.grimm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> it involves time > > ... or money. > > maybe we revisit the kickstarter (or something else) idea brought forth by > jonathon a few years ago and just pay someone to do it. to me it seems like > 1) none of us really have any money (im just assuming here we are all poor > artists) and more importantly 2) none of us really have any time and those > that do might not have the skills. > > OR maybe we have another PDCon (remember that?) to get amped up and pump > something out.... > > m > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > > I talked to Hans about this a bit. In essence, it involves bringing in the > new pd vanilla source and making sure the Pd-extended additions/modifications > aren't lost. With the updates/cleanups to the tcl/tk sources a few years ago > (great work Hans et al!), it should be alot easier than the previous extended > releases. But still, *easy* or not, it involves time. >> >> >> On Sep 21, 2014, at 6:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> From: Alexandre Torres Porres <[email protected]> >>> >>> Subject: Re: [PD] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Updated pd-extended >>> >>> Date: September 20, 2014 at 5:02:59 PM EDT >>> >>> To: Billy Stiltner <[email protected]> >>> >>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> >>> I wish I knew something about coding to help out with its development :P I >>> do care a lot about it though and wish I could help in some other way. >>> >>> >>> I do see a few problems with extended, but they're basically related to >>> some of the externals and libraries that sometimes do not work as they >>> should, have bad and messy help files and are sometimes redundanct. If >>> welcome, I could help sharing my thoughts and two cents about that, but I >>> realize those are not actual bug fixes regarding the code, so it's not a >>> priority on its to do list and issues for being updated to another release. >>> >>> >>> Anyway, while were at it, what kind of work exactly do you mean someone >>> would have to do? I suppose there is a great list of bug fixes just to keep >>> it basically what it is. Given the context, I'm not assuming any big to do >>> list for some new features agenda. But besidesthe bug fixes, how hard is it >>> for someone to just update to the latest vanilla core? >>> >>> >>> Well, since Pd is an open source project that relies on community effort, >>> and this is the list of its main developers and users, I guess this is the >>> place to talk about a collaboration and see if we can get Pd-extended's >>> developmentto continue. >>> >>> >>> I'd to help in any way I can. >>> >>> >>> Cheers >> >> -------- >> Dan Wilcox >> @danomatika >> danomatika.com >> robotcowboy.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> > > > > > N�n�r����)em�h�yhiם�w^�� > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
