[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 11:07 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > As already replied earlier, meta-packages, resp. packages that include
> > several effects are a PITA for this kind of software. Each effect should
> > get it's own package.
> 
> A developer who is doing packaging is not coding/maintaining. Ardour has 
> delt with this by incluing a lot of extra stuff in their package and 
> making it install "anywhere". Two packages does Linux (32 and 64). I 
> expect it was still a lot of work just to do packaging... my very limited 
> experience with packaging has been that it has taken pretty much as much 
> of my time energy and resources to package as to do what was in the 
> package... and it was only one kind of package for one version of distro. 
> There are some people who just package other people's SW. To make the most 
> of their time it is not unusual to make one package with more than one 
> sub-package in it. There are not enough people who enjoy or are willing to 
> do packaging to change this reality.
> 
> Personally, I am getting to the point where I want to spend my time on 
> what is important to me, making music.

I several times "planed" to become an *buntu/Debian and Arch audio
packager, but I'm now certain to never ever become the maintainer of any
official package for any distro, since there are too many barriers for
my taste.