On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> frinika-0.6.0-3: >> F-13 version should be working now. Is anyone using this package? I am >> thinking of dropping it if there is no interest. >> F-13: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/frinika-0.6.0-3.fc13 > > As a datapoint, I was interested enough in this project ( > http://frinika.appspot.com/ ) that I installed it from SVN several > weeks ago.How many DAW's can you launch via URL (provided you have > java installed, along with java-web-start): > http://frinika.appspot.com/launch/launch.jnlp . > > Frinika also has some neat features and UI.... plus there's not that > many complete java apps for music, and this one is a pretty good > representative... Plus, there's gobs of working Java code in here, > which is perhaps easier to reuse/extend than other DAWs out there. > Supposedly it works with Jack too, but I wasn't able to get it going > w/ jack in my brief evaluation: Yeah, that's a problem I have too. It was *a lot* of work to get frinika into Fedora. Upstream bundles many external libraries in their sources. Since Fedora has a strict policy to package libraries separately, I had to fish them out one by one. Along the way, I figured that some of the libraries themselves were bundling other libraries, so they needed to be patched out and packaged separately. After a lot of work, by me and the reviewers, and going down multiple layers of dependency tracking, we finally managed to make an RPM for frinika. It is still very time consuming to maintain, since I have to rewrite all the patches when there is an update in frinika or in one of the libraries. Given that after all this work, it still does not work properly with jack, I started to doubt that it was worth the effort. But I'll keep it (and all the java sound libraries) if you guys like the application. Orcan _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
