Re: [Audacity-devel] Anyone working on 1.3.5?
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From: Michael S. <msc...@gm...> - 2007-11-28 13:34:50
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On 27/11/2007, Richard Ash wrote: > > We currently build with portaudio v19 by default, in order to get ALSA > support. Doing otherwise is not an option, as distros will build this > way even when it barely works for 1.2.x, regardless of our defaults. Sad to learn that this is your point of view. I won't put my hands into fire for every Linux distribution, but at the Fedora Project we had built 1.2.x with PA v18, since the experimental v19 was incomplete and didn't pass reviews, and only a long time after that the package owner upgraded to 1.3.2-beta. Perhaps *that* was a mistake and too ambitious. But that can happen when such a release looks promising and passes tests and when you, the upstream developers, don't announce a clear release cycle. In a Linux distribution that uses ALSA everywhere, it is not trivial for users to use OSS (different mixer interfaces and input devices, unclear mapping between ALSA and OSS emulation). 1.3.2-beta certainly solved that problem. > I have been using portaudio v19 / ALSA since I moved to the beta series, > and it's never been a problem to me. About 1.3.2-beta I don't remember any bug report either. But personally, I won't support/suggest an upgrade to 1.3.3-beta or newer because of what I think is regression. I'm certain several users would open a ticket as soon as they ran into the error dialog in the GUI. > I'm guessing this is partly because I have the audio on my machines set > up properly (which seems to be beyond most graphical tools, in a way I > find almost incomprehensible). Either I'm very lucky, and all the > machines I try just work first time, or Gentoo has a magic effect on > Linux sound, or certain other distros have something very wrong. The way you phrased that, it's FUD. :-{ Everytime you repeat it, you don't explain why other audio applications work fine in the same environment. It's not as if the software in this distribution were altered heavily compared with what the upstream projects release. At least playback in Audacity should work as in 1.3.2-beta and before. Certainly if resampling libs are built in. |