Re: [Timidity-devel] timidity-devel shout out for main-developer

[Ozkan S. <se...@gm...>]

> Hello everybody on timidity-devel list
>
> This project seems to unfortunatly have gone stale.

Unfortunately,

> Second question, what is your relation to the Timidity project? I assume
> there are some kind of relation since you are on this list.

My interest is that I'm maintaining libtimidity:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/
mirror: https://github.com/sezero/libtimidity

... which is a fork from old SDL_sound which in turn had it forked from
old timidity-0.2i, with additional fixes such as
https://web.archive.org/web/20170824103526/http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/dist/timidity-0.2i-bugfix.pat
(that onicos.com archive seems have been gone, unfortunately, hence the
archive.org link) and few additional bits from timidity++. Also applied
an initial soundfont patch of Takashi Iwai to libtimidity (in soundfont
branch), but keeping it as devel for now for lack of timidity++ config
compatibility in it yet.

> For me, I use Timidity in Open Cubic Player unix version - I maintain a
> fork of the project since I initially needed to fix some minor issues, and
> at a later point I needed to make a complete fork since I am preparing my
> player to be able to hold multiple instances.

Multiple instances like libtimidity support would be good. (Take bits
from it as you like.)

> There is also libtimitidy standalone forks and SDL implementation that
> are stripped down rewrites and adds support for multiple instances.

They are not actually stripped down, they are, as I said above, just
forked from the old timidity-0.2i. All three of libtimidity, SDL_sound
and SDL_mixer share the same code base timidity-wise.  SDL side just
cannot upgrade to a fork from newer timidity++ code because of its GPL
license (SDL needs zlib or compatible license.)

> Best regards
> Stian Skjelstad

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