Quoting Nicholas D Steeves (2020-07-05 18:31:43)
> Hi Jonas,
> 
> Thank you for replying, and so sorry for the long delay.
> 
> Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes:
> 
> > [ re-posting, bugreport cc'ed this time ]
> >
> > Quoting Nicholas D Steeves (2020-05-30 22:34:10)
> >> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 03:57:44PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 07:19:06AM +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> [snip]
> >> Do you object to the move to dh?  Also, would you like to remain an
> >> Uploader or would you like me to remove your name from the list at
> >> this time?
> >
> > Please go ahead, and please remove me as uploader (not because of that 
> > change - I am changing away from cdbs myself as well nowadays - but 
> > because I no longer have a special interest in that package)
> >
> 
> I was able to find some of the reasons for the previous packaging
> decisions, such has how librubberband causes timing issues (in a drum
> machine, this would be RC imho!); however, calling rubberband as an
> application apparently does not produce this issue.  I think OSC support
> would be really nice to have, but suspect it was disable because liblo
> was buggy, and I stumbled upon what seems to be the fact that this is
> still the case (https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/897).
> 
> Why weren't you building the shared lib before?  It looks like hydrogen
> might have been statically linked?  That seems wrong to me, so I wonder
> what the reason was ;-)
> 
> I'm guessing the files that would have gone into the -dev package were
> deleted because long ago there was no need.  Do you know if they would
> now be useful for something like plugins?
> 
> If you can share why these, and other decisions, were made I'd very much
> appreciate it.  At this time core functionality, MIDI, and export of
> some formats was confirmed to be good (#960539), but I'm trying to be
> careful about disrupting more advanced functionality other users may
> depend on.

Please explore any comments in the packaging files, or git commits - in 
that order.  I very much doubt that I have any more information to share 
than is contained in either of those.  Feel free to ask if there is some 
comment or commit message that you do not understand.


 - Jonas

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