Re: [Nyquist-users] compiling nyquist and mailing list issues

[Roger D. <rb...@cs...>]

  On 10/2/10 4:21 PM, David wrote:
> Just as an example, PureData (you're probably familiar with it, or
> have at least heard of it) is distributed as a single package for all
> variants of Linux and it seems to work for most people.
Is this really true? I just looked here: http://puredata.info/downloads 
and it appears that there is a different compiled package for each 
(supported) variant of Linux, and a source version so users of other 
Linux versions can compile their own.
> I've installed
> it under EasyPeasy, and it works. And for what it's worth, both
> Audacity and STK are distributed as pre-compiled packages for Linux,
> which I was able to install without any problem.
And http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/linux shows about 9 
different packages for 9 different Linux variants along with a source 
code link.
> I've also installed a
> few other things that weren't included as part of the distribution,
> too.
>
> Nyquist is the first thing I've actually had to compile myself. I'm
> not sure which version of Nyquist is bundled with Audacity, but if
> they can do it, I think it should be possible to distribute the
> stand-alone version as a package as well.
Absolutely possible. It's just a question of doing it. I can't really 
keep up with changes in OS X, Windows, and 1 linux system, much less 9 
or 10 linux systems, but help is certainly welcome. Debian and Ubuntu, 
for example, have Nyquist releases. I don't know about others.
> It's becoming less and less
> common to have to compile things yourself, even for Linux systems. And
> if it became available from either the Debian or Ubuntu repositories,
It is!
> it might even expand your user base. (I only became aware of Nyquist
> after installing Audacity and discovering that I could write plugins
> for it in Nyquist!)
>
> Thanks,
> David.
>