9 Dec
2017
9 Dec
'17
2:46 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 11:36:28 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:52:30AM +0100, Louigi Verona
wrote:
Regarding pacman.conf I planed to do the same back in 2015.
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.
I don't depend on open source audio for my daily work, but I want to
have trouble free fun making music in my free time.
To cut a long story short, I never used carla.
Building caral and launching carla does work, I still wonder what
Carla 1.9.7 (2.0-beta5)
is for. Did I build the stable release 1.9.7 or a beta of 2.0?
"source=("https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz"" -
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=carla
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep carla /var/log/pacman.log
[2015-08-28 10:17] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U
carla-git-1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-28 10:17] [ALPM] installed carla-git (1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2)
[2015-08-28 10:47] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.I9q/carla-bridges-win-2.0beta4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-28 10:47] [ALPM] installed carla-bridges-win (2.0beta4-1)
[2017-01-07 12:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.nK0/carla-git-1.9.7.r10.g45f74421-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-01-07 12:07] [ALPM] upgraded carla-git (1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2 ->
1.9.7.r10.g45f74421-1)
[2017-01-27 09:58] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.zYM/carla-bridges-win-2.0beta5.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-01-27 09:58] [ALPM] upgraded carla-bridges-win (2.0beta4-1 -> 2.0beta5.1-1)
[2017-07-21 16:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.W4q/carla-git-1:1.9.7b.r2.gc57e8169-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-07-21 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded carla-git (1.9.7.r10.g45f74421-1 ->
1:1.9.7b.r2.gc57e8169-2)
[2017-08-24 16:52] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rss carla-bridges-win'
[2017-08-24 16:53] [ALPM] removed carla-bridges-win (2.0beta5.1-1)
[2017-08-24 16:53] [ALPM] removed carla-git (1:1.9.7b.r2.gc57e8169-2)
[2017-08-24 17:06] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.b9O/carla-1.9.7-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2017-08-24 17:06] [ALPM] installed carla (1.9.7-5)
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi carla
Name : carla
Version : 1.9.7-5
Description : Audio Plugin Host
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : file fftw fluidsynth glu liblo linuxsampler mxml ntk-git
projectm python python-pyqt5 qt5-svg zlib
Optional Deps : gtk2: LV2 GTK2 UI support [installed]
gtk3: LV2 GTK3 UI support [installed]
python-pyliblo: OSC support [installed]
python-rdflib: LADSPA-RDF support [installed]
qt4: LV2 QT4 UI support [installed]
zynaddsubfx: ZynAddSubFX banks [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 96.42 MiB
Packager : Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)rocketmail.com>
Build Date : Thu 24 Aug 2017 05:03:44 PM CEST
Install Date : Thu 24 Aug 2017 05:06:16 PM CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : None
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ carla
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Using "qt5ct-style" theme
Carla 1.9.7 (2.0-beta5) started, status:
Python version: 3.6.3
Qt version: 5.9.3
PyQt version: 5.9.2
Binary dir: /usr/lib/carla
Resources dir: /usr/share/carla/resources
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt5ct: palette support is disabled
libjack.so.0 loaded sucessfully!
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