On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Sid <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Blubee blubeeme > > I'll work on it but let me get the port in the tree first, then I can > refine it. > > Just as i've done with my previous ports. > > > Sid > > a simple program that plays simple sounds like "Ding!" > > The problem with libcanberra is around pulseaudio and gstreamer. It is > also with how gtk, a Visual Graphical toolkit, is mixed in with an Audio > application. > > I was inspecting libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3. > > audio/libcanberra-gtk3 takes care of canberra plugins for pulseaudio and > gstreamer. It also takes care of two gtk3 library files, one of which is a > module. Ports that really need gtk3 are tangled mostly upstream, and > require --enable-gtk3. Others ports require libcanberra-gtk3 for either > gtk3, pulseaudio or gstreamer. Some ports have audio/libcanberra-gtk3 as a > dependency, but don't need it. > > audio/libcanberra itself is not so bad. audio/libcanberra also works > without gtk20 in the test Makefile, which shouldn't be needed at all. So, > plain libcanberra without libcanberra-gtk3 is not complicated, because it > doesn't involve gtk3, pulseaudio, and gstreamer; it has gtk2 as a > dependency, which it doesn't need. > > > Sooner or later, a drop in replacement for libcanberra needs to be made > for all BSD's. It should use ogg files from audio/freedesktop-sound-theme. > Perhaps it can include simple pipe to play ogg and other audio files as > well. After investigating, libcanberra is suitable for the short term, and > anything that fails without libcanberra-gtk3 is an issue with the upstream > ports themselves. > I'll look at the libcanberra OSS backend and see if I get get the changes upstream then the libcanberra maintainer can update the port. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
