Fixing SC in testing

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/8/5 Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/8/5 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>> We currently have a broken supercollider in testing, and the freeze
>>> means 3.5.3 will not migrate automatically.
>>>
>>> Dan, since you are the most knowledgeable on SC matters, could you
>>> prepare a message on why do we prefer 3.5.x instead of 3.4.x for
>>> wheezy? I can think of:
>>>
>>> 1. Widgets (are the new qt-widgets source-compatible with the older
>>> java-based ones?)
>>> 2. No more scons.
>>>
>>> Any other important stuff?
>>
>> Important issues with SuperCollider 3.4.x in debian wheezy, that
>> motivate transitioning directly to 3.5.x:
>>
>> * SC 3.4.x relied optionally on a third-party java-based kit
>> ("SwingOSC") to provide for building user interface widgets. (This
>> provides standard server- and addon-management interfaces as well as
>> user-made GUIs. It's not compulsory to have GUIs but it's typically
>> assumed in tutorials and the official book.) This was never packaged
>> for debian, so the provision is kinda incomplete. SC 3.5 includes a
>> QT-based widget system which provides all of this functionality and
>> with the same programming interface. It's very nice.
>>
>> * The GEdit plugin "sced" has been updated to support GEdit version 3,
>> which is what is in wheezy. (We previously just deactivated the gedit
>> plugin in wheezy which is a shame as it's a recommended editor for
>> beginners.)
>>
>> * The old and overgrown SCons build system has been removed in favour
>> of Cmake. Requires much less downstream packaging effort.
>>
>> * User config files are moved to a much more XDG-friendly location:
>> instead of ~/share/supercollider   it's now
>> ~/.local/share/SuperCollider and ~/.config/SuperCollider.   (Old
>> config is detected and migration info is output.)
>>
>> There are many other changes - it's a major release of SC - news for
>> 3.5 is at http://doc.sccode.org/Guides/News-3_5.html
>>
>> This OK?

Yes, I like it.

>
> One more issue: version 3.5.3 builds on a lot of archs now (just a
> couple lacking because of a missing build dependency), and I'd be very
> surprised if 3.4.x went much beyond i386/amd64/ppc.

But SC used to build in all archs with 3.4.x.
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=supercollider&suite=wheezy



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler