On 01/04/2011 02:19 AM, lanas wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:46:11 -0500, Paul
> Davis<paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote :
>
>>> I'm using a rather 'old' Ardour version eg. 2.4.1.
>
>> i believe that the question was answered, but here's one for you:
>> what is the justification for continuing to use such an ancient
>> version of Ardour? there are probably 300-400 bugs fixed since
>> then, some of them very serious ones.
>
> I'm not too keen about updating Fedora 8. Everything works OK. When
> I want to record things it works. I have seen too numerous problems
> when doing other updates.
>
> But I would like to get bug fixes and I'm quite interested in trying
> out the upcoming new Ardour with MIDI sequencing support.
>
> I used to build my own Linux systems (LFS, BLFS), some 8 years ago,
> for both home and work. This is how I started with Linux MIDI. I've
> seen some software that is difficult to build, but not that much, all
> in all. I have never built Ardour. Are the requierements flexible
> enough to make it compile-able using gcc 4.1.2 and GTK 2.0 ? I could
> be interested in compiling the latest sources.
quoting myself here because i'm lazy:
> Test new releases of the software you use, frequently. Yes, that can
> be a hassle. But imagine this: you are a programmer who has just
> completed a frantic all-weekend hack, your software is now totally
> bug-free and has tons of cool new features. Now you want all the
> world to share it and rejoice. Yet, your users keep asking you to
> support some release that’s two years old. Not fun. However, since
> there is no money, what else is there to drive people but fun? Of
> course, nobody wants you to wreck your production machine every other
> day with risky updates. Still, try to track current developments: you
> will find that developers are more responsive to issues with releases
> they work on and use themselves. It’s some extra work, but think of
> it as your licensing fee.
(from an editorial in econtact magazine,
http://cecpublic.pbworks.com/w/page/13063882/OpensourceEditorial)
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