Thanks, Christopher. Say, does anyone know the extra steps to compiles with VST support that the Ardour instructions say are coming soon?
Thanks, Sean On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Christopher R. Antila < [email protected]> wrote: > On 09/11/2013 12:42 PM, Sean Beeson wrote: > > Is compiling for source the only way to still get Ardour 3 on Fedora 19? > > > > If so, does anyone have any good how to on dealing with the dependencies? > > Hi Sean: > > With little effort, I found these instructions for Ardour 3.1: > https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=548 > > Please let us know whether they still work. > > However, I feel we should start a discussion on what to do about Ardour, > now that they have asked distributions not to package their software. > This is actually a serious ethical dilemma. > > Possible Options Include: > > 1.) Package Ardour 3 against the developers' wishes, making no > additional changes. > > 2.) Package Ardour 3 against the developers' wishes, making some change > that encourages donating money to the project. > > 3.) Continue to package Ardour 2, accepting responsibility for > maintaining software that's abandoned by the upstream developers. > > 4.) Drop Ardour from the distribution, since we do not wish to maintain > the Ardour 2.8.x series or package the Ardour 3.x series against the > developers' wishes. > > 5.) ? > > I favour the first or second options, since the free software audio > community is so small that we can't afford the added difficulty of using > such an important piece of software. On the other hand, the free > software audio community is so small that we can't afford creating a > rift with the Ardour developers. If we choose one of these options, we > should be sure to involve the developers in our decision-making process. > > If the SIG wishes, I would be happy to research the state of Ardour in > other distributions. > > > Christopher > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
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