[PlanetCCRMA] Pure Data, SuperCollider, RT kernel & distro news

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

Hi all,

I have released some new packages and updates for Fedora 24 (and shortly 
for 23 as well, stay tuned)... Only for good sports willing to try new 
not yet finished stuff... :-)

I have started the move to plain vanilla Pure Data (instead of the no 
longer maintained pd-extended) as suggested in an old thread by Felix 
Homann. For now I have released the base "puredata" set of packages 
modeled on the Debian package organization. Installing the "puredata" 
meta package will install:

   puredata-core
   puredata-doc
   puredata-extra
   puredata-gui
   puredata-utils

(you should first uninstall all the existing pd-* packages - this is all 
just being lightly tested so install at your own risk)

There is of course the additional puredata-devel package.

I have not started packaging additional pd related software like Gem or 
the many pd-* externals that are available (starting with flext). That 
will happen, but maybe a bit slowly as I'm very very busy...).

I have also updated SuperCollider to the official 3.7.2 release, with a 
matching SC3 plugins package. Same package structure, new versions. SC 
seems to start fine but I have not done (again) much testing. Since the 
last version I packaged the SuperCollider Quarks have migrated to git, 
and each quark is now an independent git repository. So for now I have 
not packaged any Quark as I used to. I do not know what is the best 
solution for this, I used to package a few important quarks (MathLib, 
DDW Library, Ambiem, etc) so that I could do global rpm-based installs 
at CCRMA instead of each user being required to do a local install in 
his/her own account (saves space, easier to maintain). I'm still trying 
to figure out what is the best way to keep doing this and be compatible 
with locally (per-account) installed quarks. I suspect it will not be 
that easy.

I have also released a new up to date RT patched kernel based on 4.8.10 
and the rt5 patch. I'm using it in my laptop and it seems to be working 
fine.

Finally, Fedora 25 has been released. I have not started the usual 
Planet CCRMA mass rebuild yet. I'm hoping to migrate my antique build 
infrastructure from Plague (yes, that old but still working) to a more 
modern Koji server on a fresh virtual machine. Hopefully it will be 
easy, I will be able to migrate everything, and all the new stuff will 
work on the first try :-) Ha ha...

Enjoy!
(and sorry for any bumps in the upgrade and testing process)
-- Fernando