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By the way, I calmed down a bit and read your README file more closely, you did sort of mention the dependencies but it wasn't overly thoroughly explained what to do. I shy away from dependencies, especially situations like the Perl reuse modules on cpan.org where the term "dependency hell" is used to denote the seemingly never-ending chain of dependencies. Plus I'm on a Mac at the moment and your program is for Linux.
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Right. I had kinda assumed this was for your Ubuntu laptop, I think on a Mac you can get ready-made Wii interfaces.
Dependencies need not be a huge issue, as long as you can find them in your package manager (this would probably be a issue on OSX which doesn't seem to have one but then again on OSX you also need to compile less). They may still "chain-reaction" and depend on stuff themselves but then it's for the package manager to sort and not for you.
In the end in modern computing nearly everything depends on something else, I think it's actually good in most cases. I don't think it would be such a good idea for ChucK to have to have it's own soundcard drivers...
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| Kassen wrote: | | Dependencies need not be a huge issue, as long as you can find them in your package manager |
Yes, I see your point and agree, it's just that I've had so much trouble chasing down dependencies in the past. The CPAN package manager on my system won't track down Perl dependencies properly, which is rather frustrating at times. I just need to be a little more detail-oriented with the README files and procedures. Someday I'll get over all my past experiences with computers being so disagreeable!
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I'm not sure how far you are with Ubuntu now but Synaptic (the Debian and hence Ubuntu package manger (actually it's interface) ) is really quite good.
Also; if you'd get in trouble here you could just contact Marije; it's her software, she clearly posted it for people to use and that won't happen if they can't build it so I'm sure she'd be interested to hear your findings.
It's really great how easy it is to blame others in this Open Source stuff. If ChucK catches fire I just blame Ge and he's always happy to hear about it! ;¬)
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By the way, I calmed down a bit and read your README file more closely, you did sort of mention the dependencies but it wasn't overly thoroughly explained what to do. I shy away from dependencies, especially situations like the Perl reuse modules on cpan.org where the term "dependency hell" is used to denote the seemingly never-ending chain of dependencies. Plus I'm on a Mac at the moment and your program is for Linux.
Besides, I'd rather solder my way out of a problem than code my way out!
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Either way can be time consuming, and if it's a software package with only a few dependencies, which are even in your distribution's repository, that's the shorter road for sure. Even if you have the schematics for soldering, that is still going to take a couple of hours to get it all right, whereas compiling the software takes less than 5 minutes. For Mac there are ready solutions as well to work with the Wii.
README files are called README as an invitation to read them. Usually they contain interesting info about the thing you just downloaded.
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