Re: [Timidity-devel] Patching autoconf fragments for C99 compatibility

[Kenzi N. <kn...@gm...>]

> Some time ago, our Linux distribution development server
> suffered a severe failure.  Fortunately, the data remains intact, and
> most of the functions necessary for development have been restored,
> but the TiMidity++ hourly tarball release mechanism remains suspended.
> Restoration is delayed due to the low patch volume.

It may be better to use GitHub Action
rather than utilize self-hosted "the TiMidity++ hourly tarball release
mechanism"
at the viewpoint of ease of maintenance and continuity,
if there are no problems to repository moving to GitHub from SourceForge.
I'm not familiar with GitHub Action very well,
but other OSS communities use it conveniently.


2023年3月5日(日) 18:50 TAMUKI Shoichi <ta...@li...>:
>
> Hello Jonathan-san and all,
>
> I am one of the members involved in the development and maintenance of
> TiMidity++.  Due to personal circumstances, the frequency of receiving
> E-mails has decreased.  I apologize for the delay in replying from the
> TiMidity++ development members and causing everyone concern.
>
> Around the beginning of 2000, MIDI and its peripheral standards such
> as SMF were widely used by general users and industry people.
> However, due to various factors, the number of users using other
> standards and formats increased, and it seemed that MIDI was gradually
> dying out, especially in Japan.  It seems that the TiMidity++
> development members who were busy at the time have gradually faded out
> and are now active in various fields.  Nonetheless, there is universal
> demand for MIDI among core users and industry people, and I believe
> that TiMidity++ has a reason for existence.  I believe other
> TiMidity++ developers have similar thoughts.
>
> By the way, I'm working with another group of people to develop our
> own Linux distribution based on Slackware.  TiMidity++ is one of the
> major packages in the Linux distribution's multimedia category.  Of
> course, we also maintain packages such as libtimidity, SDL_sound, and
> SDL_mixer.  I didn't know about Open Cubic Player UNIX version, but
> it looks interesting software, so I'd like to try it someday.  I run
> the TiMidity++ hourly tarball release mechanism on our Linux
> distribution development server.  It checks for patch commits every
> hour, performs a compilation test if there is an update, and uploads a
> tarball.  Some time ago, our Linux distribution development server
> suffered a severe failure.  Fortunately, the data remains intact, and
> most of the functions necessary for development have been restored,
> but the TiMidity++ hourly tarball release mechanism remains suspended.
> Restoration is delayed due to the low patch volume.
>
> Jonathan-san, thank you very much for sending us the patch that fix
> code that relies on obsolete C89 features such as implicit function
> declarations and implicit ints.  It looks good to me.  I would like to
> commit this patch, but I am hesitant because the TiMidity++ hourly
> tarball release mechanism is stopped as mentioned above.  I would like
> to restore it as soon as possible, so please wait for a while.  Not
> only will we accept compilation issues like this one and security
> patches, but we will also work on extending features and implementing
> new features in line with the current situation.
>
> From: Ozkan Sezer <se...@gm...>
> Subject: Re: [Timidity-devel] timidity-devel shout out for main-developer
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:40:15 +0300
>
> > 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.
>
> Ozkan-san, the site above has moved:
>
> http://www33146ue.sakura.ne.jp/staff/iz/timidity/dist/timidity-0.2i-bugfix.pat
>
> Regards,
> TAMUKI Shoichi
>
>
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