On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:09:15PM +0900, Urabe Shyouhei wrote: > Very sad to say, TiMidity++ is not maintained anymore. What > happened? Well, Japan's real-world politics around music > copyrights almost vanished MIDI community there. It is still > (believed to be) regal to develop TiMidity++ itself in Japan, > but there are no single MIDI file to play using it. Comitters > -all Japanese- has lost their interest a lot for this > situation.
Ouch. Maybe we'd at least mail LWN Letters to try and get some attention for both the project and the situation? If you decide to publish this, maybe Cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be nice -- or forwarding the message there. I can also do this for you with or without removing the name and address. > I still have access to TiMidity++ repository so I can > upload your patches anyway. Thanks, maybe that would help someone. But please note that these aren't "mine", I've tried to clear up on that in original message. I'm just a humble package maintainer. > But I cannot catch why TiMidity++-2.13.0-alt-config.patch is > needed. You can change that using configure script, no? Hm, maybe. Guess it was following the INSTALL recommendations and not willing to put configuration into /usr/share or patches into /etc, and there's only DEFAULT_PATH/TIMID_DIR to change. > Michael Shigorin wrote: > > Hello, > > I've decided to come up with what I've got as TiMidity++ > > maintainer in ALT Linux (there are 5 patches in our 2.13.2 > > package now) and found that timidity infrastructure seems > > a bit abandoned at the moment: > > > > * proposed bugtracker interface is broken: > > http://timidity-docs.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/kagemai-en/guest.cgi > > > > * "main developer site" doesn't even resolve: > > http://www.timidity.jp/ml-jp.html > > > > * there's no patch tracker set up (I've been logged into SF)... > > > > If you care about TiMidity++ or know those who do, would you be > > so kind to accept this message, publish the contents for others > > not to reimplement this, or forward as appropriate? > > > > Patches attached; TiMidity++-2.13.2-tcltk-link.patch originates > > from ALT Linux (courtesy of Damir Shayhutdinov) and fixes > > underlinking, TiMidity++-2.13.2+flac-1.1.3-partial.patch > > originates from FLAC developers (was kindly passed by our > > flac maintainer); the rest was borrowed from Gentoo. > > > > Thanks, and sorry if you're no more into that. Arigato! -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Timidity-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/timidity-talk
