Re: [liblo] premake4?

El martes 4 de agosto, Stephen Sinclair escribió:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Felipe Sateler<fsa...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi. I'm the new maintainer (actually, part of a team) for liblo in
> > debian, and I have been preparing the latest release for distribution for
> > a while now. I want to ask what is the premake4 windows binary and lua
> > script are, and why are they included (without source) in the source
> > distribution. In debian we might be forced to remove the binary (as it is
> > sourceless) from the source tarball, but this probably doesn't really
> > matter much. I googled around and premake seems to be a build helper
> > tool. If so, is its usage recommended? So far, we use the configure
> > script + make to build liblo.
>
> Hi,
>
> Great to hear from you.  I'm very happy that debian is considering
> including a newer version of liblo. The premake4 binary is in the
> repo only for generating Visual Studio project files, and can safely
> be ignored or removed on *nix.  I included it as a binary for
> simplicity, it is unmodified from the premake project.  I took a cue
> from the Open Dynamics Engine on using premake to handle Visual
> Studio-related things, even the premake script file is modified from
> their project.  The autotools build is still used for Linux, OS X, and
> other *nix OSes.

OK. FWIW, it would be simpler for me if you didn't ship the binary, because 
then I have to repack the tarball without it. It is not a big deal, however, 
as I already have a script in place to do this automatically.

>
> By the way, now that liblo includes a couple of tools (oscsend and
> oscdump), you might consider creating a liblo-tools package, but
> that's up to you obviously.  My 2cents is that I think it would be
> incredibly useful if these command-line tools for sending and
> receiving OSC could be included in Debian.
>
> (I already use these tools for doing unit testing on OSC-related
> projects, for example.)

Noted, the new version will include a liblo-tools package with said tools.


Saludos,
Felipe Sateler