Marije,

Thanks, I think that this is basically good news.

> The problem with building from source on 64studio, is that you will
> need some dev packages, which you will need to get from Debian.

I can get these packages from the etch repos, I assume?

> btw, if you are actually on a 64-bit machine, check the SuperCollider
> swiki for building, since the language does not work natively on
> 64-bit. There are some hints on the swiki on how to install SC in that
> case.

No, we're still using 32-bit machines over here. ;-)

Thanks again,
Mike

On Jan 14, 2008 6:17 PM, nescivi <nescivi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jan 14, 2008 5:58 PM, mike clemow <gelfmuse@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (whoops, i send this to the dev mailing list. sorry folks.)
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm curious whether anyone is using SuperCollider on 64Studio and, if
> > they are, whether they installed it from source or used a .deb package
> > somewhere.
>
> I have it installed from source, partly, since I am a developer, but
> also since the .deb package in unstable is very old and outdated.
> The problem with building from source on 64studio, is that you will
> need some dev packages, which you will need to get from Debian.
> Hopefully at some point in the future, a more up to date SuperCollider
> deb package can be provided...
>
> btw, if you are actually on a 64-bit machine, check the SuperCollider
> swiki for building, since the language does not work natively on
> 64-bit. There are some hints on the swiki on how to install SC in that
> case.
>
> sincerely,
> Marije
>
> > I know that there's one in Debian unstable, but I don't
> > want to mix repos. Any hints?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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Hi Mike,

>> The problem with building from source on 64studio, is that you will
>> need some dev packages, which you will need to get from Debian.
>
> I can get these packages from the etch repos, I assume?

Yes indeed. We originally left these out of the install image to fit the
iso on a 700MB CD-R. Now we're on DVD-R, there's a good case for
including the dev packages.

Cheers!

Daniel

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mike clemow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious whether anyone is using SuperCollider on 64Studio and, if
> they are, whether they installed it from source or used a .deb package
> somewhere. I know that there's one in Debian unstable, but I don't
> want to mix repos. Any hints?

I wish. :|

cheers,

tim

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:56:03PM -0500, mike clemow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious whether anyone is using SuperCollider on 64Studio and, if
> they are, whether they installed it from source or used a .deb package
> somewhere. I know that there's one in Debian unstable, but I don't
> want to mix repos. Any hints?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike


Hi,

I seem to recall that the package in the debian/unstable repo was well
out of date and comments to the effect that it was going to be orphaned.

I built from source (svn) but it comes with the debian/rules stuff to
autobuild a .deb which worked nicely. Note that the sclang component
does not run in 64-bit so you have to build it 32-bit and run it from a
32-bit chroot. Or use the 32-bit version of 64 Studio.

I've stopped using it, for the time being, because of the learning
hurdles. A lot of the interesting material available on the net requires
GUI components which aren't implemented under Linux. It seems still to
be a fairly Mac centric world, I think. I decided PD and csound would
reward my time investment more productively. This is a shame because I
enjoyed the language, but just getting MIDI to work was quite painful.
The built-in MIDI primitives are fairly basic, and people seem to use
the dewdrop library which provides more sophisticated abstractions, but
I had problems with it because some of the classes required the GUI to
be functional. Maybe I'm missing something but I spent several days
getting nowhere. The documentation is Mac centric too. I hope this will
change, as I want to use it.

Is this your first time with supercollider on linux? If so, maybe I can
save you some time. The default interface is the emacs sclang mode. I
don't like emacs, I like vi. If you're the same look into scvim, it's
pretty good. If you don't like vi or emacs, then there's a gedit plugin
called sced, it's nice too.

Hope this helps.

Michael

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