Olpc3 vs Joyride

[Jim Gettys]

Dennis:

OLPC csound is an *exact* formal *subset* of full csound-5 built from
the same sources as csound-5.

It gets rid of tk/tcl dependency we don't want to carry in csound....
                          - Jim

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:25 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > Am 30.06.2008 um 00:05 schrieb Dennis Gilmore:
> > > On Sunday 29 June 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > >> I reanimated my script that shows differences between the latest
> > >> joyride and candidate builds:
> > >>
> > >> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/olpc3-joyride.html
> > >>
> > >> ... and in particular added a section to easily see what packages are
> > >> in olpc3 and not in joyride, and vice versa.
> > >>
> > >> There are not only differences in package versions, but also in which
> > >> packages are in. I wondered, for example, why csound is missing from
> > >> joyride ...
> > >
> > > a second copy of csound landed in fedora as olpcsound.  it is built
> > > specifically for olpc  and is in joyride.
> >
> > If it was named csound-olpc that would have been more obvious ...
> >
> > - Bert -
> Yes,  first i heard of it was when i was asked to switch out csound and csound-
> python for olpcsound.   Had i been asked before hand i could have suggested a 
> way that the csound spec could have produced  csound csound-python and csound-
> olpc.  but what is done is done.  I personally don't like anything being 
> called olpc-foo,  I think we should write code that is useful outside of OLPC, 
> useful to the whole world.  In which case  the naming is really a poor choice.
> 
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