Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Remy CLOUARD wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 02:43:47PM +0100, tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Hi, If you are curious to see what can be done with the MIDI::ALSA Perl module have a look at a program I wrote with it: http://www.yamahaforums.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=5915 Awesome ! Up until now I used to use simple sysexxer to transfer sysex to my DX7. Editing patches on the DX7 is a major pain, because there is only one slider to adjust each parameter for all oscillators. Seems to me that this library will make it way easier to build apps that do what this app does for the RM50. (maybe you have plans to support other hardware ?) Yes, IMHO this library together with Perl/Tk (or GTK2-Perl if you prefer) for the GUI makes it very easy to write apps like this one, I have very little programming experience and I still managed to write this in a few weeks in my spare time (I did have basic Perl scripting experience but had never written such large GUI based app before). I might write similar apps for other synths I own in future but I don't own a DX7 (great synth!) so can't support that one. Regards, Andy
[Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)
Hi, Thanks to Peter Billam there is now a Perl module that gives Perl complete access to the ALSA MIDI library therefore allowing to easily create programs in Perl that inteface with MIDI capable synthesizers. I have packaged up this Perl module for Centos 6 and I think it should be straightforward to port the Centos 6 spec-file to Mageia, but since I'm not a Mageia packager (and can't be due to lack of time) I wanted to bring this to your attention with the hope that a Mageia packager picks this up and adds this very useful package to Mageia. Here are the Centos 6 files: Spec-file: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/spec-files/perl-MIDI-ALSA.spec Source RPM: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/source/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.src.rpm Binary RPMS: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/i686/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.i686.rpm http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/x86_64/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm If you are curious to see what can be done with the MIDI::ALSA Perl module have a look at a program I wrote with it: http://www.yamahaforums.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=5915 Regards, Andy
Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)
Hi tux99,
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:43:47 +0100 (CET)
tux99-...@uridium.org wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to Peter Billam there is now a Perl module that gives Perl
complete access to the ALSA MIDI library therefore allowing to easily
create programs in Perl that inteface with MIDI capable synthesizers.
I have packaged up this Perl module for Centos 6 and I think it should
be straightforward to port the Centos 6 spec-file to Mageia, but since
I'm not a Mageia packager (and can't be due to lack of time) I wanted to
bring this to your attention with the hope that a Mageia packager picks
this up and adds this very useful package to Mageia.
I now packaged your perl-MIDI-ALSA for Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron after some
Mageiaisation of the .spec file. Thanks!
If you wish to return the favour you can package Freecell Solver
( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) for Fedora/CentOS. The .tar.bz2 already has
a built-in .spec and .spec.in and there's also a Mageia package for it here:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/freecell-solver-3.14.1-1.mga3.src.rpm
I should note that it should better be made a suggests of the Fedora PySolFC
package, because it enhances it (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdqNuX4WJc
). PySolFC recommends the following flags in build Freecell Solver:
--enable-max-num-freecells=8
--enable-max-num-stacks=20
--enable-max-num-initial-cards-per-stack=60
Translated into the new CMake build system, they are:
%cmake -DLOCALE_INSTALL_DIR=%{_datadir}/locale -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=%{_libdir} \
-DMAX_NUM_FREECELLS=8 -DMAX_NUM_STACKS=20 -DMAX_NUM_INITIAL_CARDS_IN_A_STACK=60
I tried to set up a Fedora VM to prepare the package and test it, but Fedora
ran extremely slowly on my VirtualBox VM and I couldn't stand it (Mageia and
other Linux distributions as well as Windows and FreeBSD run fine on different
VMs). If anyone can she any light on this issue, I'll be grateful as well.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Here are the Centos 6 files:
Spec-file:
http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/spec-files/perl-MIDI-ALSA.spec
Source RPM:
http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/source/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.src.rpm
Binary RPMS:
http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/i686/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.i686.rpm
http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/x86_64/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
If you are curious to see what can be done with the MIDI::ALSA Perl
module have a look at a program I wrote with it:
http://www.yamahaforums.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=5915
Regards,
Andy
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Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote: I now packaged your perl-MIDI-ALSA for Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron after some Mageiaisation of the .spec file. Thanks! That's great, thanks! If you wish to return the favour you can package Freecell Solver ( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) for Fedora/CentOS. The .tar.bz2 already has a built-in .spec and .spec.in and there's also a Mageia package for it here: Unfortunately I'm not a Fedora user or packager at all, I only run a personal repo for EL6 (RHEL6/Centos6/SL6) specialised in Audio/Video packages which is quite popular among EL6 desktop users due to the fact that it has several A/V related packages no other EL6 repo has. If you like I could add Freecell-Solver to my personal EL6 repo, but I don't think that would help much, it would probably get more attention in one of the large EL6 repos like EPEL. Regards, Andy
Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)
Hi tux99, On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:59:25 +0100 (CET) tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote: I now packaged your perl-MIDI-ALSA for Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron after some Mageiaisation of the .spec file. Thanks! That's great, thanks! You're welcome. If you wish to return the favour you can package Freecell Solver ( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) for Fedora/CentOS. The .tar.bz2 already has a built-in .spec and .spec.in and there's also a Mageia package for it here: Unfortunately I'm not a Fedora user or packager at all, I only run a personal repo for EL6 (RHEL6/Centos6/SL6) specialised in Audio/Video packages which is quite popular among EL6 desktop users due to the fact that it has several A/V related packages no other EL6 repo has. If you like I could add Freecell-Solver to my personal EL6 repo, but I don't think that would help much, it would probably get more attention in one of the large EL6 repos like EPEL. Thanks for your work. In any case, today I was able to successfully install and run a Fedora VM on my laptop (which is more underpowered than the desktop machine), although I did a few things differently like using a fixed-size VBox disk image and installing a 32-bit system. After that, and after installing some packages, I was able to prepare a Fedora-friendly freecell-solver .src.rpm and submitted it here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885346 Another thing I considered doing in the Fedora VM was an install of the Oracle RDBMS (which I was told was free for development purposes) and play with it a little. Not sure I'll do that, but I might. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs E‐mail, web feeds, and doing something productive — choose two. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
Re: [Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 02:43:47PM +0100, tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Hi, If you are curious to see what can be done with the MIDI::ALSA Perl module have a look at a program I wrote with it: http://www.yamahaforums.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=5915 Regards, Andy Awesome ! Up until now I used to use simple sysexxer to transfer sysex to my DX7. Editing patches on the DX7 is a major pain, because there is only one slider to adjust each parameter for all oscillators. Seems to me that this library will make it way easier to build apps that do what this app does for the RM50. (maybe you have plans to support other hardware ?) Thanks for bringing attention to this module, and thanks rindolf for packaging it :) Cheers, -- Rémy CLOUARD () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
