On 12/21/2010 04:50 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 21 December 2010 10:55, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> there were 16 commits to svn within the last 20 hours. some of these >>> were deep changes to the way things work (though hopefully not >>> resulting in any visible breakage, we don't know, which is why its not >>> released yet). do you really think that arch linux users who are using >>> a pkgbuild to try this out have any grasp of what is going on? >>> >>> maybe the answer, your answer, is "yes". i'm quite a bit more skeptical. >> >> I'd be as skeptical as you, if that's the question. There are bound to >> be those who just want to "try" ardour3. > > right. and that's the whole point. i don't want people who "just want > to try it" to do so at this point because i don't believe its ready > for them. i agree. but paul, there could be one benefit to distribution build-scripts: if they track the dependencies, they make it very easy to pull in all the required third-party libraries for a3. that is, they remove a major hurdle for a casual tester that doesn't want to jump through too many hoops to have a look at ardour, and who is capable of dealing with pre-release software and the required debugging procedure. (need to upgrade my main studio machine soon, and boy do i wish for an a3-build-requirements meta package...) best, jörn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
