On 18/03/11 21:46, Pierre Massat wrote:
I agree that this is quite cryptic. I think i've read somewhere that the
functionality that's missing has to do with the plugins.
In Ubuntu's repositories there's only a pretty old version of Ardour
available. I don't know what the deal is...
Distributions have their own timetables and priorities, the versions they
include are not determined by Ardour.
A version of Ubuntu is based on a snapshot of Debian sid, or maybe testing, some
time before it was released. That would often be more than a year ago. Lots has
happened in Debian multimedia in the last year or so, many more applications are
available and there is a lot more attention paid to audio now.
The Debian repositories are up to date ...
$ apt-show-versions -a ardour
ardour 1:2.8.11-3 stable ftp.iinet.net.au
ardour 1:2.8.11-5 testing ftp.iinet.net.au
ardour 1:2.8.11-5 sid ftp.iinet.net.au
ardour/testing uptodate 1:2.8.11-5
2.8.11 is the current release on the Ardour website, though there are certainly
other versions in development.
Debian stable has software up to 2 1/2 years old. It does not get updated after
it is frozen (about 6 months before it is released) and releases are 2 years
apart. There was a new release in the last couple of months. Stable is intended
to be a version that does not change and has already been heavily tested ...
very useful where high security and a fixed set of software versions are needed,
say in a webserver. Sid usually contains much more recent versions of software
... perhaps try one of the rolling distributions (like aptosid, there are
several) if you want your distribution to contain recent versions.
Simon.
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