[LAU] supercollider / debian

[nescivi]

Hiho,

On Saturday 28 March 2009 11:42:25 Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > i was looking for supercollider on debian lenny, but unfortunately
> > > i coulnt find any deb-source on the www and compiling the source runs
> > > into several errors.

Please post these errors.
Maybe we can help fix them, or maybe you have found a genuine bug.

> > > are there any repos available? does someone know?
> >
> > Please Debian people, report bugs if you find something like this! We
> > shouldn't just accept that such audio apps are just not in Debian imo!
>
> Well what gets packaged depends on who volunteers to become a Debian
> maintainer and submit an ITP.
>
> Submitting a bug is one way, another would be to read the packaging
> documentation and build the package for it. Supercollider is, IIRC, a
> pretty straightforward package that doesn't create any libs or daemons. If
> there's already an unofficial package, then that's a start.

It does create one, and possibly two libs.

The main difficulty with packaging SC would be that the lang has to be 
compiled 32bit, and it has quite a lot of dependencies on other libs, which 
then would also be available for 32bit.
Of course, this is only a problem for the 64bit Debian, but I could imagine 
that this poses a problem for it becoming officially part of Debian.

sincerely,
Marije