Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] packaging
From: STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) ("STEFFL,)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 05:50:20 EEST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Conder [mailto:kconder_AT_interaccess.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 6:54 PM
> To: linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] packaging
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> > so, no, i don't need help packaging. i need help to
> convince people to
> > (1) stop using packages and (2) to avoid RH7.X and (3) to convince
> > package maintainers to *never* distribute modified versions
> of source
> > available as a tarball.
>
> Can anyone name for me a widely-used Open Source
> application that
> (1) is only available from CVS and (2) requires compiliation
> of all of its
> supporting libraries from scratch?
ardour?
> > building Ardour is "simple" if your definition of "simple" includes:
> .
> .
> *snip* an arduous process
> .
> .
> > personally, i wouldn't call that "simple", and i also don't see any
> > easy way to make it so.
>
> Maybe we should rename "Ardour" to "Arduous". ;-)= Just kidding.
>
> Ardour isn't the first Open Source application to use external
> libraries. Look at some other Open Source projects. What do they do?
as have been stated ardour is not ready for stable release. in addition to
that some of the libraries it uses are not stable (CVS snapshots have to be
used with ardour). so there is no stable (packaged) release.
erik
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