Jim Lux wrote: > I'm going to leap right into the middle of a religious war here..
I totally agree with Jim's ideas here and add my own thoughts. Currently, there is not a repository of binary images for the DttSP code and it's dependencies. It requires the user to download all the source code and possibly the source code for it's dependencies and build them on their own machine. What we need is a group of volunteers that will test the released binaries against their favourite distro and possibly rebuild them if there are any incompatabilies found and then put the binary packages in the repository for others to download. This should also include the required dependencies (currently jack, qjackctl, fftw). I would also like to point out that some of the small, easy to install, easy to use versions of Linux are usually not ideal for developing on. I installed Ubuntu on one of my machines (only requires 1 CD) and got very frustrated when it came to getting the development environment setup. The install had a Development option but it didn't even install gcc. I found I had to use Google to find out how to install it and then it required a command line 'sudo apt-get install build-essential' to get it installed. I had to repeat this for several packages that I would usually install with no problems on other distros. OK, once I finally did get it setup I was able to build and run DttSP (and my Java GUI). I should add that I have reverted back to Fedora (Core 5) ;-) I have seen an anouncement that Java 1.5 is now available on BSD 5.4 and 6.0! Anyone tried to get DttSP running on BSD? Regards, John g0orx/n6lyt -- Looking forward to the new DttSP code for Linux/Windows -- -- John Melton Sun IT CTO Office: +44 1252 421708 (ext 21708) Mobile: +44 7714 708861
