On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Andy Shevchenko > wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Nowadays the jack project has two branches - old jack (1) branch with >> version 0.116.2 and new one called jack2 version 1.9.3. >> I'd like to gather opinions and suggestions about applying new version for F13. >> Please, share your thoughts! >> Thank you. > > Recently I have received following letters: > > > ---------- message ---------- > From: Adrian Knoth > Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:55 PM > Subject: Coordinated jackd upgrade > To: andy.shevchenko > > > Hi Andy! > > I'm the Debian maintainer for jackd, ardour, ffado, qjackctl and some > more packages related to pro-audio. > > After a long discussion, the Debian Multimedia Team decided to switch to > jackd2 in squeeze, our upcoming release. > > We already coordinated with Ubuntu, they'll also switch ASAP, though > it's too late for their soon to be released Lucid. > > We also contacted Opensuse (yesterday, answer pending), and now Fedora. > The idea is to have all major Linux distros using the same jackd > version, so users don't experience different levels of functionality > depending on the distro they use, non-applicable recipes from the > Internet, missing features and so on. > > The rationale for our switch to jackd2: > > * ABI-compatible drop-in replacement for jackd1, so no need to change > or recompile any application > > * SMP support. jackd1 can only use one processor/core > > * soundcard reservation. jackd2 can talk to pulseaudio via DBUS to > acquire the soundcard, so no need to manually shutdown or rip off > PA when a user wants to start jackd. > > * support for ladish session manager (http://ladish.org) > > > In general: more features, more everything. The Fedora-derived pro-audio > CCRMA distro uses jackd2, the Gentoo pro-audio overlay uses jackd2, > Ubuntu-Studio64 uses it and so on and so on... > > > We have our jackd2 package almost ready, so if you like, we can send you > a tarball if this helps. > > How do you feel about this coordinated approach? > > > Cheerio > > > ---------- message ---------- > From: Adrian Knoth > Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:16 PM > Subject: Re: Coordinated jackd upgrade > To: Andy Shevchenko > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:02:08PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > Hi! > >> > Hi Andy! >> Because this is private message I would like to ask about possibility >> to forward this mail to the fedora-devel@ mailing list. > > Of course, feel free to forward and if need be CC me, just in case you > want me to reply to something... this also holds true for this mail. > > > I see you've been discussing the very same problems. ;) Here are some > decisions we made: > > * only one package, that is, we ship jackd2, not jackd1+jackd2. > There's no need for two packages, jackd1<->jackd2 are drop-in > replacements to each other. Consequently, we avoid virtual packages. > > * Realtime permissions: our jackd package creates the file > /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf with the following content: > > @audio - rtprio 95 > @audio - memlock unlimited > > > The jackd2 package is missing manpages. For a start, we'll simply copy > them from jackd1, but let me talk to upstream. This needs to be solved > in jackd2 anyway. > I don't object the change. Let us ask the CCRMA folks to get their opinions. Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
