Hm I still think that renaming should only be done when strictly needed. I can't see the need of this change tbh.

Large part of the community has the patches with g2reverb, I assume more patches (also in other apps like jack-rack) exists. So every single member the community has to adjust the patches. When you install it on an other computer, you've to find the adjusted patch or adjust again.

This missing g2reverb in AMS killed my workflow yesterday already, I could not make the moog patch work

Googling 15min
IRC asking 15 min
Googling 10 min
Reinstalling AMS + depends 20 min
Ask question on KXstudio forum 10 min
Got close to an answer 45 min later
Writing email LAU 5 min
Waiting for an answer ....
Adjusting patch ...

At the end I did nothing with AMS, had to go...




On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:43 AM, rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com> wrote:
I use this version with nsm support
https://github.com/royvegard/ams

IIRC both libclalsadrv and libzita-alsa-pcmi could be used for building


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 01:37:38AM +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:
> Thanks! The question is whether it is wise to change the name of something
> like this ... I don't have enough developer knowledge to give the answer. I
> can only experience the problem as a user.
>
> The fix is quite easy, that's the good part, but these things are still
> annoying.

The problem here is that the original name of the plugin file (g2reverb)
was a bad choice.

You could also try to create a (symbolic or real) link g2reverb.so ->
zita-reverbs.so.

This will probably work with AMS, but may upset other apps which rely
on the unique number and will find duplicates.

There seems to be little maintenance of AMS. The latest version
I could find still depends on libclalsadrv while this has been
deprecated for some time, and the changes required to use
libzita-alsa-pcmi instead are really trivial.

Ciao,

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