[linux-audio-dev] Software with source code?

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:09:50AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:55:10 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > Dave Robillard <drobilla at connect.carleton.ca> writes:
> > 
> > > One suggestion:  I think it'd be useful to list what interfaces the app
> > > supports, I know at least for me if it doesn't use jack it's basically
> > > useless (and I'd rather find this out before downloading the whole
> > > thing!)
> > 
> > The audio distributions (such as CCRMA and AGNULA) do this already for
> > tracking package dependencies.  It's a big job keeping all that up to
> > date.  Perhaps a web-friendly interface for that information would be
> > more useful than a separate attempt to keep track of it all.
> 
> The nacent linux audio apps site could do this as well (freshmeat does
> IIRC).
> 
> *cough*    appA depends-on appB . :)

Indeed. Although I don't know how user-friendly it is to list 
*everything* ... "oh, it depends on glibc? what a surprise!" ;-)
but, that's a minor nit.

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