Hi, Thanks to Peter Billam there is now a Perl module that gives Perl complete access to the ALSA MIDI library therefore allowing to easily create programs in Perl that inteface with MIDI capable synthesizers.
I have packaged up this Perl module for Centos 6 and I think it should be straightforward to port the Centos 6 spec-file to Mageia, but since I'm not a Mageia packager (and can't be due to lack of time) I wanted to bring this to your attention with the hope that a Mageia packager picks this up and adds this very useful package to Mageia. Here are the Centos 6 files: Spec-file: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/spec-files/perl-MIDI-ALSA.spec Source RPM: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/source/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.src.rpm Binary RPMS: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/i686/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.i686.rpm http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/x86_64/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm If you are curious to see what can be done with the MIDI::ALSA Perl module have a look at a program I wrote with it: http://www.yamahaforums.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5915 Regards, Andy
