What to do with Ladish

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:46:18PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:47:19PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>> > Some time back there was a little discussion about packaging Ladish 
>> > or not (www.ladish.org). Ladish is a Linux audio session manager, 
>> > which stores projects, launched apps, jack connections etc.
>>
>> Why isn't it in debian yet?
>
>By that time, it was ladish-0.1. We now have ladish-0.2, and apps need 
>to support it, read, implement special handlers for the ladish 
>callbacks/signals.
>
>The newly created JACK session API aims more or less at the same, and 
>apps need to implement it. While there is already support for JACK 
>session in jackd1's SVN, there is none in jackd2. Nowhere.
>
>OTOH, ladish requires a DBUS-enabled jackd, and this means jackd2 at 
>the moment.
>
>Long story short: This is a moving target, pure development area. The 
>gladish screenshots look nice, but as long as there's no consensus 
>about session save API upstream, we trick users into lots of problems: 
>apps not supporting it, jackds not supporting it and so on.

Sounds to me like it then makes sense to do the following for Debian:

  1) Package ladish but release it only for experimental
  2) For packages supporting ladish, enable it if available at build time
  3) Build ladish-supporting packages for experimental

That way those interested in maturing ladish have a way to test 
progress.


>Rosea: do you use gladish? I never tried it, I only saw some discussion 
>about it on IRC and the mailing lists. I might be mistaken, so if you 
>say it's a must have piece of software, then we clearly should get our 
>hands dirty and start packaging it. ;)
>
>
>> I don't remember the details.
>
>1e. ;) SCNR

Huh?


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