[LAU] zyn and the art of software maintenance

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:24:50AM -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:39 PM, cal <cal at graggrag.com> wrote:
> > As best I can tell, jackd 0.109.2 didn't have jack_set_info_function. While
> > the jack info callback doesn't serve any huge purpose in this context, and
> > therefore could be left out of yoshi, 0.109.2 was released January 2008,
> > which is a long, long time ago. I suggest you consider installing an up to
> > date version of jack. On lenny, that'll probably mean compiling it yourself.
> > If you go that way, getting rid of the debian jackd mess first is very
> > important.
> 
> I kind of figured that I might have an issue with my version of jack,
> so I took it upon myself to seek out 64studio's lenny backports and
> added them to my /etc/apt/sources.list.  I dist-upgraded my way to
> recent jack happiness, and was able to play with the synth - it works
> wonderfully!
> 

Yep. I grabbed the Debian source package of 0.116 from somewhere--
maybe 64studio, maybe Sid--, then built it and installed it
earlier this year. No prob, been using it live for quite some time
now.

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-ken