Re: [liblo] premake4?

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Felipe Sateler<fsa...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.


Great, thank you for your work!  That's excellent news.


Steve