Fixing SC in testing

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

TBH, this summary sounds like a good reason for me to request SC to be
removed from testing and consider 3.5 as a good target for
wheezy-backports.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard