Re: [Qutecsound-users] CsoundQr rc2, about stability

[Tarmo J. <trm...@gm...>]

Yes, 

please checkout master. Develop has currently problems, I have not got to yet.

tarmo

On laupäev, 14. oktoober 2017 18:47.57 EEST joachim heintz wrote:
> hi tarmo -
> 
> i would like to test this on my linux, too.  should i checkout master,
> or what is best approach?
> 
> thanks and regards -
> 
> 	joachim
> 
> On 11/10/17 15:15, Tarmo Johannes wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 1) I made some more small improvements to CsoundQt master branch and
> > uploaded release candidate 2 for Win and Mac to:
> > 
> > http://tarmo.uuu.ee/varia/failid/cs/CsoundQt/
> > 
> > I tried Windows version in another computer, Mac version not yet, but I
> > believe it should work.
> > 
> > Please try out first if they work for you, I will write release notes
> > about the few new features soon.
> > 
> > 2) On stability:
> > CsoundQt crashes mostly because of three reasons:
> > - some library is not found (left out from installer or wrong link in case
> > of MacOS) or there is version mismatch (not so typical)
> > - Csound crashes and brings CsoundQt down with it
> > - There is bug in CsoundQt
> > 
> > 
> > In any of these three cases, please let know!
> > 
> > It is nimportant to distinguish between CsoundQt (frontend) and Csound
> > (the
> > actual audio engine).
> > How to make sure if the problem of Csound core library or CsoundQt code 
> > and choose which issue tracker to use?
> > - mostly you can find it out if you run the csd in terminal and see if the
> > error/crash appears there. If yes, it is most certainly Csound problem.
> > Sometimes it is not so obvious, then please feel free to write to any of
> > the two mailing lists beforeandroid:glEsVersion
> > 
> > What I miss is most is constructive feedback, especially from Windows
> > users
> > (of course,  thanks a lot to those who have ever issues reported!). I
> > don't
> > use Windows daily and so just don't know about many problems.
> > Still, several times I have found some very basic bugs that nobody has
> > ever
> > reported! For example just recently I discovered that example csd-s from
> > manual could not be opened in editor or recording does not work (now
> > fixed) - I never believe that noone on the planed would not have had
> > these problems. Please take a bit from your time to write a proper bug
> > report (including platform, version, Csound version, what you did, what
> > did not work).
> > 
> > Issuing a bug report is easy -  if you have CsoundQt running -  just click
> > Help->Report a bug. If CsoundQt crashes on startup, go to
> > https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/issues
> > or write to CsoundQt mailing list:android:glEsVersion
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/qutecsound/lists/qutecsound-users
> > 
> > Another thing that clearly needs more community support is testing
> > development or beta builds. For example in the summer we did a lot of
> > work with Michael to integrate support for html files including Csound
> > (or vice versa). In the beginning of August I uploaded beta versions and
> > asked in the CsoundQt list to test those but got almost no feedback at
> > all for weeks. (Summertime, of course, but still -  it is not
> > encouraging).
> > 
> > In short -  if you ever use CsoundQt, please download (or built from
> > master
> > branch) these versions from the link above and if they crash -  very good!