Re: [LAU] Ardour3

On 12/21/2010 04:50 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> On 21 December 2010 10:55, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>> there were 16 commits to svn within the last 20 hours. some of these
>>> were deep changes to the way things work (though hopefully not
>>> resulting in any visible breakage, we don't know, which is why its not
>>> released yet). do you really think that arch linux users who are using
>>> a pkgbuild to try this out have any grasp of what is going on?
>>>
>>> maybe the answer, your answer, is "yes". i'm quite a bit more skeptical.
>>
>> I'd be as skeptical as you, if that's the question. There are bound to
>> be those who just want to "try" ardour3.
>
> right. and that's the whole point. i don't want people who "just want
> to try it" to do so at this point because i don't believe its ready
> for them.

i agree. but paul, there could be one benefit to distribution
build-scripts: if they track the dependencies, they make it very easy to
pull in all the required third-party libraries for a3.
that is, they remove a major hurdle for a casual tester that doesn't
want to jump through too many hoops to have a look at ardour, and who is
capable of dealing with pre-release software and the required debugging
procedure.
(need to upgrade my main studio machine soon, and boy do i wish for an
a3-build-requirements meta package...)

best,

jörn

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Received on Tue Dec 21 16:15:01 2010