Re: [Jack-Devel] Test 1,2

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Brand <[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:33, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Brand <[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:11, Filipe Coelho wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 10.12.2017 14:09, Thomas Brand wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:03, Filipe Coelho wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 10.12.2017 12:24, Thomas Brand wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Can we get a non-RC release for X-Mas, please?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I don't see why not :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was trying to get windows builds working, but got sidetracked
> >>>>> with other stuff. The release notes are already done, I will do
> >>>>> this soon.
> >>>>>
> >>>> +1 for windows build! so that we have the same shiny version on
> >>>> linux and windows. I hope that non-critical pull-requests will find
> >>>> the way into the release.
> >>>
> >>> I think I was not clear enough.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I was not able to get windows builds. I don't even got to update my
> >>> mingw build. 1.9.12 is kinda tagged already (just not officially). So
> >>> 1.9.12 *will not have windows or macOS builds*.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> hm, ok .. I'm speculating that
> >> "Kjetil Matheussen" <[hidden]>
> >> could help you there. It would make most sense to have at least one
> >> other supported platform so that it's "multi"-platform. For an audio
> >> abstraction layer like JACK it's even more important since
> >> multi-platform makes the abstraction complete. Cheers
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > The windows versions of Radium has included a custom version of jack
> > 1.9.12
> > since october. If you want to manually upgrade jack on your windows
> > machine, it might work just to replace the old jack files with the one
> > included in Radium. As I've expressed before, the installer should be
> > removed, and jack should be installed locally for all programs wanting to
> >  use it. This will not break any programs. Radium partly does this
> > already. Radium first checks if Jack is installed globally, and if not,
> it
> > uses the version of jack installed in the "jack_local" directory. But for
> > this to work properly with more than one client, jack needs to inform
> > where the currently used libraries are placed so that different clients
> > aren't using different versions of the jack libraries.
> >
> This sound sort of crazy, but why not just wrap an nsis installer around
> your 1.9.12 build?
>
>
> If you know how, please do. But it's the wrong way forward. What's the
advantage of installing jack globally? If all jack programs provide jack
themselves, the user can easily choose which version of jack to run, just
by starting qjackctl (or a similar program) compiled for the version of
jack you want to use.

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