On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:44:02 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: >As a plugin host, Carla attempts (and generally does) allow plugins >to use many different toolkits for their own GUIs.
Do you think that Fons is an idiot, not being aware of this? The issue still remains, the more dedicated dependencies, the more possible issues. However, let's ignore the GUI issue, for what purpose are fluidsynth and linuxsampler dependencies of a host? Especially linuxsampler is a serious issue for a lot of distros, regarding the customized/invalid license. Actually the official Arch Linux community repository provides linuxsampler, but you unlikely could mention much more major distros supporting it by their official repositories. Keep in mind that some distro's, such as Arch Linux follow the KISS principle, IOW an app usually is build with the upstream defaults, without excluding features. This at least could become tricky, as soon as e.g. a dependency to Steinberg is involved. Maybe not regarding the distro's policy, but at least regarding hunting for the current Steinberg download link. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
