Re: [LMMS-devel] Question about Lmms installation

2015-06-21 Thread Dave French
The only use I could conceive for these headers would be to build external plugins for lmms, As Tres has already mentioned, our API is unstable , and changes are undocumented. What are the disadvantages of installing our header files? On the other hand, anyone with the skill set to develop extern

Re: [LMMS-devel] Question about Lmms installation

2015-06-21 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Good question. Probably safe to remove. The idea at one point was likely to offer the ability to build other applications against the lmms binaries, but I'm not aware of any project that relies on our API, and its too vulnerable to change to even be reliable in that fashion. I don't have a whol

Re: [LMMS-devel] Question about Lmms installation

2015-06-21 Thread midi-pascal
Thanks Tres. I was more referring to the "make install" command rather than to the Ubuntu packaging. I am only curious to know what the Lmms header files can be used for, if someone knows or if it is a mistake in the CMakeFile. On 15-06-21 11:56 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > > Good question. P

Re: [LMMS-devel] Question about Lmms installation

2015-06-21 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Good question. Probably a mistake by the packager (Israel) whom only surfaces from time to time. We have his packaging notes in our wiki and we are in dire need of an official Ubuntu release process. In the mean time use kxstudio which is our recommended approach for gaining the latest version p

[LMMS-devel] Question about Lmms installation

2015-06-21 Thread midi-pascal
While installing Lmms under Ubuntu, I noticed the "include" directory is copied to /usr/local/include. I wonder why Lmms installs its include files. What is this used for? Just curiosity :) -- __