[LAD] [ANN] Drumstick 0.4.0 released

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, Niels Mayer wrote:
> Thanks for making these updates available!

You are welcome.

> Will http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/ and
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/ be updated to include the
> latest drumstick? 

The latest drumstick library sources and headers have been included already in  
kmid repository (at svn.kde.org). About the other projects, the latest 
sources will be bundled in future released tarballs, until some day when I 
will decide to stop bundling it and unconditionally require the external 
shared libraries.

I'm including drumstick in the source tarballs of some projects to make it  
easier for users to try a single program, downloading a single tarball and 
building it from sources. Packagers maintaining several programs in a 
repository should link the shared libraries instead.

> Or should I just drop in the new drumstick dir and 
> recompile? kmid-svn/drumstick/README says "This is a local copy, in
> case the standalone package isn't found." --  since I have fedora
> package 'drumstick-0.3.1-2.fc12.x86_64' installed,
> should I just deinstall that package and install drumstick 0.4.0 from
> source to get the latest drumstick lib running in kmid and kmetronome?

This release is binary compatible with drumstick-0.3.x, so it would be 
possible to replace the old libraries with the new ones, but I don't 
recommend uninstalling the RPM packages because this is probably going to 
trigger a removal process on the RPM packages depending on it. In Fedora, 
only kmid depends on drumstick, as kmidimon is distributed by CCRMA 
statically linked to an older library version, and it is an ancient kmidimon 
anyway. My advice is to contact the package maintainers and suggest to 
upgrade their packages.

> FYI, I finally figured out that I have to check
> http://cia.vc/stats/project/kde/kmid  to see what's going on with that
> project (due to Kmid being in KDE's "trunk/extragear/multimedia"), but
> to see what's happening in the library,
> http://drumstick.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/drumstick/trunk/?view=log
> and then
> http://kmetronome.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kmetronome/trunk/?view=log
> http://kmidimon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kmidimon/trunk/?view=log
> for the additional apps....

There are also RSS feeds available at sourceforge.net, freshmeat.net and 
cia.vc for these projects, with several levels of detail and customization. 
Readers for the KDE desktop include Akregator and several Plasma widgets.

> BTW, is http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kaseq.shtml (
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kaseq/0.3.1/kaseq-0.3.1.t
>ar.bz2/download ) an application that predates drumstick? Will it be updated
> to use drumstick or is drumstick not necessary for the kinds of operations
> performed by kaseq?

Yes, kaseq is much older than drumstick. It is a DCOP service for KDE3, and 
will be migrated to KDE4 some day as a DBus service using drumstick.

Regards,
Pedro