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

[Dan S]

2011/2/25 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> 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.
>
> Ping?

Pong, thanks, I will do this, busy I'm afraid - unlikely to happen
this weekend but it's on my list

Dan