Status of sonic-pi and supercollider-sc3-plugins (Re: Request for review & inclusion: sonic-pi, see #796550)

[Hanno Zulla]

Hi Petter,
Hi multimedia-maintainers,

first of all, thanks for getting the packages up to speed and ready for
Debian. It took a while, but I learned a lot. :-)

Thanks Petter, I have noticed the issues you mentioned already.


supercollider-sc3-plugins fails to build due to a problem with the cmake
configure run. Apparently, something goes wrong when cmake is calling
another cmake as a sub-process. As a result, on some, but not on all
platforms the cmake TEST_BIG_ENDIAN call fails. As sc3-plugins ought to
be endian-aware, I think this is a cmake problem.


sonic-pi however does have an indirect big endian problem. It uses the
ruby-wavefile gem and as it turned out, that was written, built and
tested upstream on little-endian hardware, only. As the Debian build for
this pure ruby arch:all package was run on a little-endian machine, this
problem wasn't noticed until now.


I'm installing a mips qemu image on my machine right now and then I'll
fix both problems.

> we can limit sonic-pi to the architectures where
> supercollider-sc-plugins is available.

This is still a sensible move. You can't use Sonic Pi without the sc3
plugin collection, so it doesn't make sense to build one where the other
isn't available.

Kind regards,

Hanno