Re: [Jack-Devel] major change in jack1 MIDI handling

On 10/12/2013 08:48 PM, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
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>
> And with distros it's a nightmare. Some distros use JACK1, some JACK2, some
> ship both, but then they are not optimally packaged, which regularly causes a
> newly compiled app to crash, because it compiled and linked against JACKx,
> while accessing server JACKy at runtime, which sometimes is hard to resolve.
> And if you want to switch from one JACK to the other, you might need to
> recompile half of your system.
>
> Short: this open source diversity is in this particular case of JACK simply
> annoying and unnecessary.

In Fedora we package only jack2. The only thing we play around with is 
the optflags (packing issue in latest g++ compiler). However, if there 
is active development in jack1 then I feel I have a responsiblity to 
give users that option also (via an opt-in repo or whatever). Its a 
pain, but I think RPM can handle it. As long as can get assurance that 
the headers provided by either will work with dependandant packages I'm 
OK with it.

Also take note that distros do listen to upstream and if we have 
packaged something poorly, please let us know.

Brendan

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