Hi, First let me introduce myself, as I think I have never posted to this list. I have been rebuilding a few audio packages on CentOS 4 and 5 for a couple of years. As Fernando mentioned earlier, I ended up submitting patches and a few new packages to Planet CCRMA. Anthony Green <green@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My speculation is that nobody is really interested in slow and stable > releases of audio software -- just ones that don't break compatibility > (my ardour 2.2 project should work with ardour 2.4, etc). > > If you are already building your own packages, why not co-maintain > some set of packages in Fedora? As far as I can tell, this point of view (which I fully agree with) is very much the opposite of EPEL's goal of stability. So for me at least, this means contributing directly to Fedora is not really an option. I mean, I could do it, but I wouldn't get much back if I have to build my own packages anyway. :-) That being said, the situation is much better now that it was, say, two years ago, as Linux audio is really getting mature; however many parts of a current Linux audio installation are still moving targets. Building up-to-date audio packages on a distro 6-12 months old is not trivial. I had to build some parts of GNOME that would probably not fit into EPEL for packaging patchage on CentOS 5, for instance. And a reasonably complete audio package set pretty much requires 2 or 3 different versions of wxGTK. -- Arnaud _______________________________________________ Fedora-music-list mailing list Fedora-music-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list
