On 06.12.2017 15:28, David Runge wrote: > Hey all, > > is anyone maybe in close contact with Nedko Arnaudov? > I've had trouble piecing together the upstream for a2jmidid [1], when > rebuilding the package for Arch Linux and tried contacting him. > > There doesn't seem to be any activity in any of his repositories on > github [2] in recent years (not a good sign). > > Especially in the case of a2jmidid, everything I hear from people when > asking them is "this was meant as a quick fix and not to stay around > long"... well, it's 2017 and it has stayed around long. > Additionally, it is dependency to some things currently in use, such as > cadence, etc.
Its functionality has been integrated into JACK 1 a while back, so is superfluous for users of the latter. Nothing should thus have a hard dependency on it, as the user may well be running JACK 1. > Nedko also worked on ladish [3], afaics, which is still dependant on the > - long outdated/dead - flowcanvas [4]. > I don't see any activity there either (at least not in the past four > years). Writing "the site is down" [5] doesn't make me believe that that > project is not dead, either. > > This actively keeps programs such as cadence to be integrated into the > [community] repository in Arch, as I will not add flowcanvas back and if > upstream for a2jmidid deteroriates even more, it will be removed from > the main repositories eventually! > > It would be great, if someone could shed some light on this. > > Best, > David > > > [1] > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/a2jmidid&id=43147b417cb82d3e0308f94188b5811eb7987a2a > [2] https://github.com/nedko > [3] https://github.com/LADI/ladish > [4] https://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas > [5] http://ladish.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
