[LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:52:30AM +0100, Louigi Verona wrote:
 
> for instance, when preparing for the sonoj convention, i had carla start
> crashing on me and i could not complete music examples. i eventually had to
> revert to flstudio to make them.

Interesting that you mention carla. I wanted to give it a try some
months ago. Until I noticed the list of dependencies, see e.g.
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/carla/>.

This 'Audio Plugin Host' depends on at least five GUI toolkits
(ntk, gtk2, gtk3, qt4, qt5), a number of soft synths (why ?),
and some very specific or -git versions of lots of libraries.
Many of these have similar long dependency lists of their own.

Expecting this sort of software to be stable, secure and maintainable
(assuming you manage to build it at all) is just dreaming. This is
not an uncommon problem with FLOSS.   

As someone who depends on open source audio SW for my daily work,
I've learned to be very selective, even if that limits what I can
use. 

Ciao,

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FA

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