On Friday 09 Dec 2005 23:43, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > Who cares, really. I'm mean seriously, they're up to their 4th > iteration of this, and jack and alsa are both so darn frickin' poorly > packaged and complicated to set up. > > Well, telling them that would be a good reason to go.
"Them"? Them who? That mysterious international cabal of developers openly going about trying to make your life as difficult as possible, and even organising conferences to discuss and refine their evil plans? It's one thing to rant theatrically about systems you personally are having trouble with -- I do that too and enjoy it -- but quite another to start drawing practical conclusions, like it's not worth even talking to those terrible people who made that ALSA thing you're having such difficulties with. Maybe even more so than Rosegarden, packaging ALSA and JACK should really be a distribution matter. On a desktop-oriented distribution in this century, starting JACK should be at most a question of finding qjackctl in the K menu (or equivalent) and selecting it. ALSA is part of the kernel; JACK itself is really easy to install, certainly when compared to big GUI applications like Rosegarden. The problem is that they're both useless unless your kernel is suitable and your soundcard has drivers. So, what would you have the developers of JACK or ALSA do differently? Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
