Re: Sonic Pi v5

Hi Valentin,

I think that makes sense in the long term. However right now SuperSonic is still nascent, poorly documented wrt its native build and very much unsupported outside of Sonic Pi. I’m using Sonic Pi as the incubation chamber for its growth. 

So perhaps it’s best to wait a while if you’re 100% behind packaging SuperSonic first. 

Sam

> On 26 Aug 2026, at 00:22, Valentin Vidic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 12:22:11AM +0100, Sam Aaron wrote:
>> The short version: Erlang and Elixir are gone, and so is
>> SuperCollider.
>> 
>> The audio engine is now SuperSonic, which is built from source in
>> tree, so supercollider and sc3-plugins are no longer dependencies.
>> Instead it’s Rust  (cargo and rustc, for the MIDI and gamepad
>> subsystems),
> 
> Hi Sam,
> 
> I have checked the v5 source a bit and it seems like the way forward
> might be to first package SuperSonic with the required dependencies
> as a separate package. Once that is in the Debian archive, updating
> Sonic Pi to v5 should be an easier lift. In the meanwhile v4 is still
> available as a package. Let me know what you think.
> 
> --
> Valentin