21 Jan
2008
21 Jan
'08
5:16 a.m.
True, but (1) as you mentioned, the barrier to entry
is high, and (2)
even if it is accepted, who is going to maintain it?
Evangelist/Package maintainers. I guess I'd give this a go if I
weren't so busy actually writing a MidiShare application .. but once
that stabilizes out a bit, I'll have to confront the issue, or else
nobody will want to run it.
Researchers are
usually busy with other things, and are not delighted by the
prospect to
go with each and every new kernel release just to update a single
driver. ;-)
A little bit of work needs to be done to bring the MidiShare Makefile
into the 21st Century, I think. If it were a bit more current with
the modern techniques for kernel module builds, and if there was a
bit of a separation between kernel module, user lib, user
applications, and distribution admin tools in the build scheme, it'd
make it easier to move MidiShare forward into a more mainstream user
space.
Maybe it's possible to unbundle the MidiShare
Linux driver from the
main
sources. That alone would make it much easier to provide frequent
updates or patches for different kernel versions, and would provide a
path to get the driver into the kernel at some point. From my
experience, the rest of the MidiShare sources should compile on any
modern Linux distro without much ado. >
That has been my experience as well. I've put MidiShare in a rolled-
from-source linux system, in Ubuntu, in Gentoo, in Debian, and
heck .. even RedHat (ack,spit).
(Well, the old gtk apps included
with Midishare can be a headache since they require the gtk1 compat
libs, but this could be made a configure-time option.)
These should be removed and placed in their own source package, imho.
It would certainly be nice if PlanetCCRMA included
Midishare again. :)
I'm currently getting a new laptop on which I can finally run
PlanetCCRMA alongside with SUSE again, so I'll probably look into that
when I have the time. It shouldn't be too difficult to adapt my
patches
for FC8.
I for one look forward to future progress in this regard .. MidiShare
is one lovely API/realtime operating system. ;)
;
--
Jay Vaughan