10 Dec
2017
10 Dec
'17
4:17 a.m.
Am 09.12.2017 um 23:59 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:44:02 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
As already mentioned, this are all optional dependency's. Even the samplers.
Think about yourself, for what should a audio plugin host use samplers??
As a plugin host, Carla attempts (and generally
does) allow plugins
to use many different toolkits for their own GUIs.
Do you think that Fons is an
idiot, not being aware of this? The issue
still remains, the more dedicated dependencies, the more possible
issues. However, let's ignore the GUI issue, for what purpose are
fluidsynth and linuxsampler dependencies of a host? Especially
linuxsampler is a serious issue for a lot of distros, regarding the
customized/invalid license. Actually the official Arch Linux community
repository provides linuxsampler, but you unlikely could mention much
more major distros supporting it by their official repositories. Keep in mind that some distro's, such as Arch
Linux follow the KISS
principle, IOW an app usually is build with the upstream defaults,
without excluding features.
This is fully understandable, but, should this lead a developer to
disable features by default?
Even then, distro maintainer usually trying to enable as much features
as possible, even when they been disabled by default.