Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 11:36:28 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:52:30AM +0100, Louigi Verona wrote:
>
>> for instance, when preparing for the sonoj convention, i had carla
>> start crashing on me and i could not complete music examples. i
>> eventually had to revert to flstudio to make them.
>
>Interesting that you mention carla. I wanted to give it a try some
>months ago.

Regarding pacman.conf I planed to do the same back in 2015.

>Until I noticed the list of dependencies, see e.g.
><https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/carla/>.
>
>This 'Audio Plugin Host' depends on at least five GUI toolkits
>(ntk, gtk2, gtk3, qt4, qt5), a number of soft synths (why ?),
>and some very specific or -git versions of lots of libraries.
>Many of these have similar long dependency lists of their own.
>
>Expecting this sort of software to be stable, secure and maintainable
>(assuming you manage to build it at all) is just dreaming. This is
>not an uncommon problem with FLOSS.
>
>As someone who depends on open source audio SW for my daily work,
>I've learned to be very selective, even if that limits what I can
>use.

I don't depend on open source audio for my daily work, but I want to
have trouble free fun making music in my free time.

To cut a long story short, I never used carla.

Building caral and launching carla does work, I still wonder what

  Carla 1.9.7 (2.0-beta5)

is for. Did I build the stable release 1.9.7 or a beta of 2.0?

"source=("https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz"" - https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=carla

[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ grep carla /var/log/pacman.log
[2015-08-28 10:17] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U carla-git-1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-28 10:17] [ALPM] installed carla-git (1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2)
[2015-08-28 10:47] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.I9q/carla-bridges-win-2.0beta4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-28 10:47] [ALPM] installed carla-bridges-win (2.0beta4-1)
[2017-01-07 12:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.nK0/carla-git-1.9.7.r10.g45f74421-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-01-07 12:07] [ALPM] upgraded carla-git (1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2 -> 1.9.7.r10.g45f74421-1)
[2017-01-27 09:58] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.zYM/carla-bridges-win-2.0beta5.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-01-27 09:58] [ALPM] upgraded carla-bridges-win (2.0beta4-1 -> 2.0beta5.1-1)
[2017-07-21 16:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.W4q/carla-git-1:1.9.7b.r2.gc57e8169-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-07-21 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded carla-git (1.9.7.r10.g45f74421-1 -> 1:1.9.7b.r2.gc57e8169-2)
[2017-08-24 16:52] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rss carla-bridges-win'
[2017-08-24 16:53] [ALPM] removed carla-bridges-win (2.0beta5.1-1)
[2017-08-24 16:53] [ALPM] removed carla-git (1:1.9.7b.r2.gc57e8169-2)
[2017-08-24 17:06] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.b9O/carla-1.9.7-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-08-24 17:06] [ALPM] installed carla (1.9.7-5)
[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Qi carla
Name : carla
Version : 1.9.7-5
Description : Audio Plugin Host
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : file fftw fluidsynth glu liblo linuxsampler mxml ntk-git projectm python python-pyqt5 qt5-svg zlib
Optional Deps : gtk2: LV2 GTK2 UI support [installed]
                  gtk3: LV2 GTK3 UI support [installed]
                  python-pyliblo: OSC support [installed]
                  python-rdflib: LADSPA-RDF support [installed]
                  qt4: LV2 QT4 UI support [installed]
                  zynaddsubfx: ZynAddSubFX banks [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 96.42 MiB
Packager : Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden>
Build Date : Thu 24 Aug 2017 05:03:44 PM CEST
Install Date : Thu 24 Aug 2017 05:06:16 PM CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : None

[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ carla
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Using "qt5ct-style" theme
Carla 1.9.7 (2.0-beta5) started, status:
  Python version: 3.6.3
  Qt version: 5.9.3
  PyQt version: 5.9.2
  Binary dir: /usr/lib/carla
  Resources dir: /usr/share/carla/resources
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt5ct: palette support is disabled
libjack.so.0 loaded sucessfully!
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Received on Sat Dec 9 16:15:02 2017