Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-10-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
that incorporated into vanilla as it makes sense. I see the autobuild server is still up. Does this still build for all platforms? On Sep 29, 2014, at 8:44 PM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote: From: sebfumas...@aol.com Subject: Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended Date: September 29, 2014

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-10-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Seb Shader via Pd-list wrote: Hello again list, What do y'all think of the idea of releasing Pd-extended both as a core pd with no libraries added except maybe the libdir and hex loaders and as a version with multiple libraries (2 release stages)? Perhaps it's been discussed.

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-10-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I don't remember the details on the differences. Pd-extended guarantees pixel sizes of boxes across platforms and releases (if not, its a bug). One way it does that is using `tk scaling 1`. I believe that was removed in vanilla. There are probably other details like this, like related to

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-10-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Hm, I can't seem to find any proposals on the list. If someone can find them for me (and if there are indeed details there) I'll see if they will work. -Jonathan On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 10:51 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: There were at least two proposals back

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-09-30 04:39, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: * pull in relevant commits from pd-vanilla (you can't just pull them all in because vanilla does the GUI stuff differently, does it? fgmasdr IOhannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-09-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Those bullet points are from the webpage, not written by me. My questions about the bullet points were inline, e.g.: Does this refer to the single-line change in pd-gui.tcl pertaining to the font scaling, or something bigger? If it's something bigger then that's a real drag. And by font

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-09-30 15:32, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: Those bullet points are from the webpage, not written by me. My questions about the bullet points were inline, e.g.: ah sorry. my email client seems to have messed up with quoting (at

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-09-29 Thread Seb Shader via Pd-list
Hello again list, What do y'all think of the idea of releasing Pd-extended both as a core pd with no libraries added except maybe the libdir and hex loaders and as a version with multiple libraries (2 release stages)? Perhaps it's been discussed. the thing I enjoy about Extended is

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-09-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
On 09/29/2014 06:10 PM, Seb Shader via Pd-list wrote: Hello again list, What do y'all think of the idea of releasing Pd-extended both as a core pd with no libraries added except maybe the libdir and hex loaders and as a version with multiple libraries (2 release stages)? Perhaps it's been

Re: [PD] Updated Pd-Extended

2014-09-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Some questions about the bullet points on the page: * update the libraries to the latest version, and test them Aren't they updated by virtue of pulling from the latest svn? If I can get Pd-extended to compile, what else do I need to do in order to update the libs? * pull in relevant

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-27 Thread zmoelnig
Quoting Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com: Now I'm even more confused. In the past you had written this to a query of mine: [...] But now you say the opposite in response to DesireData's _symbol struct which adds a refcount and a symbol size member n. How does the one break binary

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Now I'm even more confused. In the past you had written this to a query of mine: On 01/12/2013 12:04 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: In C would I just make a struct with fields of t_symbol, t_class, and a pointer to link to the next one? Yeah, a linked list would work fine, probably not as

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-26 Thread Billy Stiltner
i'm clueless On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list pd-list@lists.iem.at wrote: Now I'm even more confused. In the past you had written this to a query of mine: On 01/12/2013 12:04 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: In C would I just make a struct with fields of t_symbol,

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
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

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Why is this such a problem? I did not break source compatibility (well, some of it will happen for gui objects as a result of porting gui to qt) and for every extended release you recompile new binaries anyhow and so does pd-l2ork, except that pd-l2ork goes even one step further offering a

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
For libraries, there is binary compatibility between pd vanilla, extended, desiredata, and vibrez. desiredata made much larger changes to the GUI-side than pd-l2ork. .hc Ivica Bukvic wrote: Why is this such a problem? I did not break source compatibility (well, some of it will happen for gui

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Based on what metrics? On Sep 25, 2014 11:05 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: For libraries, there is binary compatibility between pd vanilla, extended, desiredata, and vibrez. desiredata made much larger changes to the GUI-side than pd-l2ork. .hc Ivica Bukvic wrote:

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
You can take an external compiled for the same OS/arch and it loads and works on all of them. .hc Ivica Bukvic wrote: Based on what metrics? On Sep 25, 2014 11:05 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: For libraries, there is binary compatibility between pd vanilla, extended,

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
...As strange as it may sound I must admit I've missed our broken conversations/banter. Welcome back, Hans! Alas, this time I will have to bow out--so many things to do, so little time. Hope you'll understand. Best, Ico On Sep 25, 2014 11:08 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote:

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
love those two ideas I could also add the idea of having some research group working on it. At least here in Brazil I know a couple of people who'd like to back it up. so yeah, I was waiting for the american PdCon and it never happened :( guess I'll have to make another south american one

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
On 09/25/2014 12:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: Um... have you actually read the source for DesireData? Just to clarify this-- from m_pd.h desiredata 2010.01.05: struct _symbol { char *name; /* the const string that represents this symbol */ t_pd *thing;

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-25 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
On 09/26/2014 04:22 AM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: On 09/25/2014 12:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: Um... have you actually read the source for DesireData? Just to clarify this-- from m_pd.h desiredata 2010.01.05: struct _symbol { char *name; /* the const

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-23 Thread puredata
Hi, Would do anything to finally include mtl abstractions to pd-extended. I can build on Windows, Mac, Linux the RPI. Will try to poke Hans about the code diffs on #dataflow. Should we (anyone interested in updating pd-extended) have a chat (irc, hangout, whatever). I am sure Hans will

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-23 Thread Dan Wilcox
I had to bring up semantics because developer means alot of different things to alot of different people. Also, I didn't want to bring up vanilla versus non-vanilla, just pointing out that the number of people who could help Hans put out a new version of extended is rather low. IMO a

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-23 Thread Dan Wilcox
Yes, this is great news. I didn't mean to sound pessimistic earlier, just realistic. My 2cents, though is that the l2ork website is hard to navigate :D On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Ivica Bukvic i...@vt.edu wrote: Well, there is a concerted effort on the pd-l2ork side of things. We now

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-23 Thread Ivica Bukvic
True. It is trying to be to many things-- an ensemble and a software portal. On Sep 23, 2014 12:04 PM, Dan Wilcox danomat...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, this is great news. I didn't mean to sound pessimistic earlier, just realistic. My 2cents, though is that the l2ork website is hard to navigate :D

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-23 Thread Phil Stone
It is excellent news that pd-l2ork may soon be available outside of Linux, Ivica. Cheers, and best of luck on this tack. Phil On 9/23/14, 7:57 AM, Ivica Bukvic wrote: Well, I guess you can call me a developer, whatever that means--I don't care that much about titles. Yet, I would argue

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
On 09/23/2014 09:19 AM, Dan Wilcox wrote: I disagree. Your example lists what? 2 more developers? I'm talking about developers as in people working the C code, build scripts, tcl/tk etc aka people who could, theoretically, help push out a new Pd-extended release. True, we have plenty of people

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-22 Thread Miller Puckette
I remember seeing a series of patches (code diffs I mean) that made the necessary changes to Pd vanilla to Pd extended - does anyone know if these still exist? (I couldn't find them when I looked at the Pd extended SVN repository a few weeks ago). Some of them should be in Pd vanilla anyway, and

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-22 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
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

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-22 Thread Dan Wilcox
Graduate students? On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: 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?

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-21 Thread Dan Wilcox
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

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-21 Thread me.grimm
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

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-21 Thread Dan Wilcox
Well, time money are intertwined. This is why I was talking about a Pd foundation/organization etc that could take donations from schools, organizations, poor artists etc and roll it into bounties or development support/residences. Pd has a pretty active user base but a much much smaller

[PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-11 Thread Alessio Degani
Hi List, I'm new to this list, but a long time user of PD. There is a way to keep pd-extended aligned to the current stable release of pd-vanilla? I've noticed that pd-extend carries a quite old version of pd, and no updates in a while. The official web pages, says that a rolling-release

Re: [PD] Updated pd-extended

2014-09-11 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-09-11 12:45, Alessio Degani wrote: Hi List, I'm new to this list, but a long time user of PD. There is a way to keep pd-extended aligned to the current stable release of pd-vanilla? yes: invest manpower. I've noticed that pd-extend