[LAU] How to disable Ardour's phone home option?

[Neil C Smith]

On 13 July 2015 at 14:05, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/07/2015 14:33, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 13 July 2015 07:57:13 Paul Davis wrote:
>>> It is a compile-time-only configuration parameter. It cannot be
>>> disabled at runtime if it was compiled into the program.
>>
>> I wonder what "genius" thought that was a good idea?
>
> Paul, Ardour's author :-)
> And he announced it 5 years ago:
>
> http://lists.ardour.org/pipermail/ardour-users-ardour.org/2010-August/023831.html

hmm .. that message includes the following line -

"if a single file exists (e.g. ~/.config/ardour3/.offthehook ?) then
no phone home will be initiated"

- which implies that it can be switched off without recompiling?  Or
not anymore?

I built the same feature for similar reasons into Praxis LIVE, and
don't have an issue with it, though an optional off-switch is nice!
;-)

Best wishes,

Neil

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