[L2Ork-dev] Pd-l2ork 1+2 parallel installations (Linux) might go EOL next month

[Ivica Bukvic]

In L2Ork we are still stuck in 1.x land due to K12 mode and some cosmetic
inconsistencies that may need to be addressed. I, however, do not need to
have installed them side by side. Thanks.


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On Mar 13, 2018 06:39, "Albert Graef" <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> This is for Linux (Arch/Ubuntu) users who are using the JGU packages
> to have both classic Pd-l2ork and Purr Data installed at the same
> time.
>
> Can I have a quick show of hands, please, to see how many of you are
> still doing this?
>
> The thing is, Pd-l2ork 1 is unmaintained (we simply don't have the
> time to do that any more, as all development efforts focus on Purr
> Data now), and it doesn't compile in Ubuntu 17.04 and later any more.
>
> The provisions to make Purr Data and Pd-l2ork work on the same system
> complicate my build scripts quite a bit, so I'd like to get rid of
> this technical debt as soon as possible and make the JGU purr-data
> package ship a plain unpatched installation of the upstream sources
> again. Especially since my own support for Trusty (14.04) packages
> will go EOL once Ubuntu 18.04 comes out next month. At which point the
> only "dual installation" option still supported in the JGU packages
> would be Xenial (16.04).
>
> So who would be affected by this? That is, is anyone here still
> actually using *both* the JGU packages pd-l2ork and purr-data
> *simultaneously* on any old Ubuntu release? If not, then I'll just
> remove support for the "dual installation" option altogether once
> Ubuntu 18.04 comes out.
>
> Thanks,
> Albert
>
> --
> Dr. Albert Gr"af
> Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
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