Is GEM still included in Purr-data and or Pd-l2Ork for Mac OS 64bit?

thanks

I don't think so, as some parts of GEM are not working with a 64bit Pd on OSX.

Hi @casper,

GEM is only shipped with the Windows and Linux versions of Purr Data. It has never shipped with the OSX version.

Why is this?

@casper Basically because I couldn't get a 64-bit build of GEM working on OSX.

Also, GEM takes a long time to build, and it requires a lot of dependencies. This makes it difficult to test and iteratively develop.

Additionally, I have the aim with Purr Data to make it as straightforward as possible to build Purr Data on each platform. For OSX this means depending only on the packages available in Homebrew. It also means that I don't want to force the user to make any manual tweaks or manual compile other dependencies to get it to work.

Finally-- I'm currently using an old version of GEM on Linux and Windows because it's known to work. If someone sends me a patch to make GEM work with 64-bit Purr Data on OSX, I'd also need to test to make sure it also works under Linux and Windows. However, that shouldn't be too difficult as I now have some infrastructure to automate such tests.