On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:05:14PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:13:28PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:22:23PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I discoverd Ardour today, courtesy of a Slashdot post. > > > > > > Looks like just what I need. > > > > > > Anyone have a line on debs for it? > > > > The general answer is apt-get.org, followed by google, but I think > > ardour is a special case, where the developers asked for it not to be > > packaged yet...I think... > From the ardour FAQ, referring to the question "why no tarballs?", but > I think you could apply it to debs as well: > > Why no tarballs? > > a) Because at this point in its development, I don't want to deal with > bug reports from a version that's more than 3 hours old. I am not > going to build and upload tarballs every 3 hours. Ardour sometimes > changes dramatically internally several times in a day. CVS lets > people easily, quickly, cheaply get the latest changes and build a > completely up-to-date version.
Well, that might apply, if it wern't such a PIA to build it on Debian. I would sugest that if the author wan't everyone to build from CVS (which I geuss is his right), that if he really wants anyone to _use_ this package, he should make it easier to build on likely target systems. Just mu $0.02 worth. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]