On 3/28/2013 10:47 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2013/03/28 10:32, Brian Callahan wrote:
On 3/28/2013 10:16 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
heh, I have run into the exact same thing at least 2 times so far. ;-)
Now on a more serious note: do we want to make
audio/generaluser-gs-soundfont a RUN_DEPENDS for fluidsynth? That way
it has a soundfile to use out of the box.
Unsure which is best, maybe a RUN_DEPENDS or maybe just mention it in DESCR?
My thought process here is that without it as a RUN_DEPENDS,
generaluser-gs-soundfont is totally orphaned (it doesn't depend on
anything and nothing depends on it).
That feels like a recipe to be forgotten/complaints by unobservant users
on the mailinglists.
Just my 2 cents. I'm ok with the fluidsynth update going in either way
this minor issue goes, if someone else wants to chime in.
Index: pkg/DESCR
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RCS file: /cvs/ports/audio/fluidsynth/pkg/DESCR,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 DESCR
--- pkg/DESCR 6 Apr 2008 22:42:11 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ pkg/DESCR 28 Mar 2013 14:47:03 -0000
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2
-specifications.
+FluidSynth is a cross-platform real-time software synthesizer based on the
+SoundFont 2 specifications including realtime effect modulation. It provides
+a library and command-line shell, and can be used to play MIDI files, as
+well as acting as a MIDI device via the sndio(7) interface.
-Features:
- * Cross platform support (Linux, Mac OSX and Windows to name a few)
- * SoundFont 2 support
- * Realtime effect modulation using SoundFont 2.01 modulators
- * Shared library which can be used in other programs
- * Built in command line shell
- * Playback of MIDI files
+To use FluidSynth, you will need to provide a SoundFont 2 file; a general-
+purpose file is available in the generaluser-gs-soundfont package.
