Re: [LAU] CLIJACK -- new release

Greetings fellow Linux audio folk, Some unknown handful of you (Julien Classen for sure at one point) may have used 'jackctl.py' for CLI starting of a JACK server and making JACK connections. I've now renamed the project 'CLIJACK' because it appears there's an unrelated script called 'jackctl.py' in the sources for JACK itself, and I wanted to avoid any confusion. CLIJACK is a little Python app that serves as a user-friendly command-line frontend to jackd, jack_connect, and aconnect. It allows one to quickly and efficiently connect jack ports, alsa midi ports, jack midi ports, etc. in the manner of QjackCtl, but without the GUI, and the possible bloat of the packages required by the same. Good for lean 'n mean systems, etc. So, CLIJACK is now being released, new title, a bit of new code...I did some code cleanup today, the biggest changes being: * From CLIJACK, the jackd server itself can be launched via an environment variable, CLIJACK_COMMAND. Using this, one can start or stop the server from within CLIJACK via the 's' command. This of course was the same in 'jackctl.py', however, one had to edit the 'jackctl.py' script itself to change the jackd command; now, it's modular and removed into the user's environment. * Non-critical alerts from jackd do not interrupt the interface of CLIJACK anymore (example: missing libffado, etc.) * More sensible killing of the jack server from within CLIJACK, including sending a killall message.... * More use of newlines to make multi-lined messages prettier and cleaner. I will eventually get the project correctly packaged onto the Python apps listings, and sourceforge, etc., but for now, you can download the script directly from my site if you're interested: http://www.akjmusic.com/software/clijack-20120223.py I'd love feedback!