[arch-proaudio] pd-faustgen package

[Albert Graef]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 10:15 PM David Runge <dave at sleepmap.de> wrote:

> Thanks for stepping in on that ticket as well btw.
>

No problem, I'm glad that we got that sorted out.

It would be great to evaluate whether this can be linked dynamically
> (or statically) against faust. It's not super nice to build the entire
> kitchen sink with this every time ;-)
>

I'm on the fence with this. It would certainly be nice to have the option,
but OTOH many Pd users may not even care about the stand-alone Faust
compiler, and so I can see why Pierre did it this way. It makes the package
self-contained, and independent of the Faust version that happens to be
available on the target system. (Which may be really ancient in the case of
older stable Debian/Ubuntu releases.) The fact that there's no portable way
to figure out where the Faust include files and libraries are doesn't help
either; remember that the build also has to work on Mac and Windows.

But let's see what Pierre thinks about this, I see that you already
submitted a ticket on it.

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
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