[LAD] Carla (was... whatever)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:33:25 +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote:
>On 10.12.2017 00:21, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 18:00:32 +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote:  
>>> But when installing jalv or qtractor for archlinux, because they
>>> depend on suil, expect it to pull gtk2, gtk3, qt4 and qt5.  
>> suil comes with a dedicated version itself and as far as I notice
>> doesn't require ntk-git or even qt4 and qt5 at the same time, even
>> not by it's one and only hard dependency lv2, let alone that even
>> qt4 is an optional dependency. Following the dependency chain ... I
>> might be mistaken .. even GTK3 seems not to be a hard dependency.
>> Did I miss something by suil's dependency chain?  
>
>You're missing the fact that all of these are optional dependencies.
>Nothing in carla is a real build-time dependency.
>
>But obviously, if you want to load gtk2 uis on carla, you need gtk2.
>Same goes for qt4, qt5 and gtk3. There is no way around this, you need 
>the toolkit during build-time in order to support it.
>
>ntk-git (and also fftw3, mxml and zlib) are dependencies of
>zynaddsubfx. you can take those out if you don't care about zyn inside
>carla.

Please don't get me wrong, sometimes a plugin's GUI could be an
advantage, but it also could be annoying. IMO plugins more often could
be more comfortable, with an UI provided by the host.