Bug#602050: ITP: supercollider -- A real time audio synthesis programming language

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 20:59, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 17:46, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/10/31 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>> Package: wnpp
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>> Owner: pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>>
>>> * Package name    : supercollider
>>>  Version         : 3.4
>>>  Upstream Author : Lots of people
>>> * URL             : http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
>>> * License         : mostly GPL, some BSD, CC-BY-SA-3.0
>>>  Programming Lang: C++
>>>  Description     : A real time audio synthesis programming language
>>>
>>> SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time
>>> audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted
>>> object-oriented language which functions as a network client
>>> to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
>>
>> OK, status of the supercollider packaging. Here's what I wrote on 4th
>> jan (re a patch to add versioning to the soname):
>>
>>> The patch is in, upstream. What's happening right now is we're
>>> preparing a 3.4.2 release, which will include this patch. (release
>>> candidate files are at
>>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.4.2/>)
>>>
>>> The neatest thing is to wait for 3.4.2 official release, then import
>>> it to the deb-mm repo and tweak the scripts for .so.1. Should be soon!
>>
>> Since then, there's been some delay in supercolliderland due to
>> debating garbage-collection issues in the development branch. We can
>> either wait more, or apply the patch downstream, in which case it
>> would I think be ready for others to try? What's the next step once
>> we're OK with the packaging?
>
> Since the patch is already applied upstream, and we are likely to wait
> a while before 3.4.2 is out, it should be OK to apply the patch
> locally to 3.4.1 for now. Please do that, and update the packaging
> accordingly.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler