> True, but (1) as you mentioned, the barrier to entry is high, and (2) > even if it is accepted, who is going to maintain it?
Evangelist/Package maintainers. I guess I'd give this a go if I weren't so busy actually writing a MidiShare application .. but once that stabilizes out a bit, I'll have to confront the issue, or else nobody will want to run it. > Researchers are > usually busy with other things, and are not delighted by the > prospect to > go with each and every new kernel release just to update a single > driver. ;-) > A little bit of work needs to be done to bring the MidiShare Makefile into the 21st Century, I think. If it were a bit more current with the modern techniques for kernel module builds, and if there was a bit of a separation between kernel module, user lib, user applications, and distribution admin tools in the build scheme, it'd make it easier to move MidiShare forward into a more mainstream user space. > Maybe it's possible to unbundle the MidiShare Linux driver from the > main > sources. That alone would make it much easier to provide frequent > updates or patches for different kernel versions, and would provide a > path to get the driver into the kernel at some point. From my > experience, the rest of the MidiShare sources should compile on any > modern Linux distro without much ado. > That has been my experience as well. I've put MidiShare in a rolled- from-source linux system, in Ubuntu, in Gentoo, in Debian, and heck .. even RedHat (ack,spit). > (Well, the old gtk apps included > with Midishare can be a headache since they require the gtk1 compat > libs, but this could be made a configure-time option.) > These should be removed and placed in their own source package, imho. > It would certainly be nice if PlanetCCRMA included Midishare again. :) > I'm currently getting a new laptop on which I can finally run > PlanetCCRMA alongside with SUSE again, so I'll probably look into that > when I have the time. It shouldn't be too difficult to adapt my > patches > for FC8. > I for one look forward to future progress in this regard .. MidiShare is one lovely API/realtime operating system. ;) ; -- Jay Vaughan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
