Re: [LAU] Ardour3

From: fred <f.rech@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 21 2010 - 13:55:45 EET

Le 21/12/2010 12:47, Jörn Nettingsmeier a écrit :
> 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...)
>
>
+1

Fred
> best,
>
> jörn
>
>
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