Bug#954823: hydrogen: Qt5 version available

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Jonas,

Thank you for replying, and so sorry for the long delay.

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:

> [ re-posting, bugreport cc'ed this time ]
>
> Quoting Nicholas D Steeves (2020-05-30 22:34:10)
>> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 03:57:44PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 07:19:06AM +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
[snip]
>> Do you object to the move to dh?  Also, would you like to remain an
>> Uploader or would you like me to remove your name from the list at
>> this time?
>
> Please go ahead, and please remove me as uploader (not because of that 
> change - I am changing away from cdbs myself as well nowadays - but 
> because I no longer have a special interest in that package)
>

I was able to find some of the reasons for the previous packaging
decisions, such has how librubberband causes timing issues (in a drum
machine, this would be RC imho!); however, calling rubberband as an
application apparently does not produce this issue.  I think OSC support
would be really nice to have, but suspect it was disable because liblo
was buggy, and I stumbled upon what seems to be the fact that this is
still the case (https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/897).

Why weren't you building the shared lib before?  It looks like hydrogen
might have been statically linked?  That seems wrong to me, so I wonder
what the reason was ;-)

I'm guessing the files that would have gone into the -dev package were
deleted because long ago there was no need.  Do you know if they would
now be useful for something like plugins?

If you can share why these, and other decisions, were made I'd very much
appreciate it.  At this time core functionality, MIDI, and export of
some formats was confirmed to be good (#960539), but I'm trying to be
careful about disrupting more advanced functionality other users may
depend on.

Thanks!
Nicholas
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