Development Meetings: Minutes

[dscheiba]

SC Dev Meeting 04/2025 @ 2025-05-21

See also Development meetings: minutes · supercollider/supercollider Wiki · GitHub

Attendees:
Dennis (capitalG), Gianluca (elgiano), Scott (scztt), Marcin (dyfer), Jordan (JordanHendersonMusic)

Next meeting will be already happening next week (see Development Meetings: Scheduling Polls - #120 by dscheiba for voting) where we will try to finalize all outstanding PRs for 3.14 so we can create a release candidate <3

All PRs/Issues regarding the new kwargs functionality should become part of 3.14 release so this feature doesn’t get introduced incremently across releases, so there should be an emphasis on those.

Take a look @ 3.14.0 · GitHub for outstanding issues/tasks/PRs for 3.14

Discussed PRs

• Rename ServerTreeView · Issue #6853 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub => ServerTreeView should be renamed to NodeTreeView in order to not create confusion with the existing class ServerTree => Rename ServerTreeView · Issue #6853 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • dyfer will create a PR to rename it
• Overview of the future package manager (Dennis and Scott)
• Council structure
  • The council structure should be represented as GitHub teams for the SC repository - this allows to rework repo-permissions and also mentions of the team in review
  • dyfer will create a GH teams according to Council structure · supercollider/supercollider Wiki · GitHub, where e.g. Windows would become windows
  • The permissions of the current GH users who are not in those teams wyll be afterwards reviewed in a future dev meeting
  • capital-g will create a CODEOWENRS file accordingly
• scdoc renderer: use forward slash on Windows by dyfer · Pull Request #6865 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub merged
• Fix unixCmd quoting on Windows by dyfer · Pull Request #6858 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • scztt will give this a review and if everything is okay this can be merged
  • Maybe consider process/src/windows/default_launcher.cpp at develop · boostorg/process · GitHub as a source for a good implementation
  • Nice to have: writing tests for this - maybe a C++ unit test would be great for this
• Add option to close subprocesses using killProcessByID by dyfer · Pull Request #6849 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub => Can probably be the source of hanging-server bugs on windows b/c how scsynth is spawned regarding sub-processes. This PR tries to unify behavior across all platforms.
  • elgiano will take a look at how processes can be killed recursively on linux
• Convert emacs and vim to an opt-in build flag on linux by capital-G · Pull Request #6835 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • elgiano will check if the proposed new proposed default build flags will create problems with scnvim - if not, this will be approved
• IDE<->sclang Document fixes by dyfer · Pull Request #6827 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • Minor review comment from scztt - dyfer will adjust the code accordingly, afterwards it will be merged by scztt
• Scsynth/buffer sample rate initializing by tremblap · Pull Request #6800 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub => rather complex b/c an existing OSC endpoint will change a bit - sclang is fine but maybe other language implementations could create problems?
• class library: keyword args for composed and higher order functions (new PR) by telephon · Pull Request #6786 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • Jordan may provide a faster implementation through a primitive
  • Jordan provides a final review and will merge it
• scide: HelpBrowser fix ambiguous shortcuts by elgiano · Pull Request #6762 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • dyfer will test this on windows and afterwards it can be merged
• CoreAudio: try setting sample rate of output device when input and output sample rates are mismatched by dyfer · Pull Request #6717 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • tricky in regards when using bluetooth devices b/c in this case the input sample rate w/ 22 kHz - this can create problems for people who can’t spot a 22 kHz output sample rate
  • Reaper doesn’t seem to fix the input sample rate which could create problems - dyfer will reach out to the reaper team and ask them if they could put the device into exclusive mode in order to not allow for sample rate changes
  • add some warning when this is happening
  • will be changed to use the output sample rate
• class library: EnvironmentRedirect – call dispatch on removeAt by telephon · Pull Request #5923 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • dennis will review this
• Add `postEnvironment` command · Issue #6349 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub
  • scztt will take a look at this <3
• dennis will re-write the “my items” view on the 3.14 project page
• Maybe organize a release party/stream for 3.14.0 w/ some small performances?
• Marcin’s thoughts on help browser (postponed once again :/)
• Doc styleguide (postponed)