[Jack-Devel] Test 1,2

[Thomas Brand]

On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:42, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Brand <tom at trellis.ch> wrote:
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>> On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:33, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Brand <tom at trellis.ch> wrote:
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>>>> On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:11, Filipe Coelho wrote:
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>>>>> On 10.12.2017 14:09, Thomas Brand wrote:
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>>>>>> On Sun, December 10, 2017 14:03, Filipe Coelho wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 10.12.2017 12:24, Thomas Brand wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Can we get a non-RC release for X-Mas, please?
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>>>>>>> I don't see why not :)
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>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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*.
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>>>>
>>>> hm, ok .. I'm speculating that "Kjetil Matheussen"
>>>> <k.s.matheussen at gmail.com>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
>
The JACK API didn't change much so it makes sense to have that server as a
system-wide library IMHO. Not sure about ABI. This won't prevent to
package it along with the application, but this should be looked at as a
special case.
I've done some stuff with nsis in the past, it's pretty straight forward.
I can provide the install script if needed at some point in time.
Greetings