Thomas,
you are cc'd as you moved 'ofsndplay' from the MacOSX package into
audio.
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 02:33:33PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> lør, 06 09 2008 kl. 14:16 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
> > The global variable makes it more difficult to fix this in a simple way;
> > but that is the package's maintainer decision.
>
> I don't think Paul is actively maintaining the package anymore (I'm not
> sure though...), so I don't think we should let the maintainer
> decide :-)
> If I understand you correctly the audio package defaults to using
> "ofsndplay" which only works on a Mac, and you want to change it to
> "play" which (I'm guessing) only works on Linux/BSD. Is that correct?
Actually it's not what I wanted, but I just realized that the patch does
just that. Sigh, more work ahead.
> If so, it might be better to let the default value depend on the
> Operating System, i.e. something like
>
> if (ismac ())
> sound_play_utility = "ofsndplay";
> else
> sound_play_utility = "play -t AU -";
> endif
>
> Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding things here...
No, you are correct.
I guess the best way is to get rid of the global sound_play_utility
variable and let the sound.m check for the existence of 'ofsndplay' or
'play' respectively. We can still check for the global variable, such
that the user can override the checks; but we shouldn't set it
ourselves.
Thomas, can you post the output of
octave:2> file_in_path(EXEC_PATH, "play")
octave:3> file_in_path(EXEC_PATH, "ofsnplay")
on your Mac?
Thomas
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