Hi Michael, thanks for your reply! On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:54 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Thursday 18 February 2010, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > >> 6) The DSSI and LADSPA plugin paths are wrong on 64 bit systems. I am >> attaching a patch to correct the issue. > > Wrong on 64-bit systems on certain distros. This has come up before, and we > didn't see a clear path to resolving the issue in a sufficiently generic way, > so we chose to do nothing. >
I am confused here. The patch just adds new plugin search paths. On 32 bit Fedora /usr/lib64/ does not exist but we still apply the patch and the software works. I thought my patch wouldn't break anything on distros which don't use /usr/lib64/ , but clearly I am missing something. Can you be more specific what the patch might break? > I'll be happy to accept patches, and I'll be happy to work with you as much as > possible. It's refreshing to see a package maintainer taking these issues > upstream and opening this kind of dialog, and I hope you don't get too > frustrated with me for not agreeing with all of your suggestions > instantaneously. > Not at all. When I package software, my standard philosophy is to get as much stuff upstreamed as possible. This also saves me future work since sometimes I would need to modify the patches on subsequent releases. I also don't want to fork away too much. Of course there are some very distro specific patches (e.g. to point a software to Fedora's default soundfont) which doesn't makes sense to get upstreamed. Even then it is good to let upstream know what I did, so they don't get confused because of different behavior when one of my users comes to them for help. And believe me I sometimes have to deal with upstreams which aren't that nice. It is okay to have different opinions. This is life. Like you indicated it is best to find a common denominator. Best, Orcan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
