From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 15:22:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E431065676 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:22:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017878FC15 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 1AEC51E000CF; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:22:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p8IFL13e098535; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:21:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p8IFL12v098534; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:21:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:21:01 +0200 To: bf1783@gmail.com Message-ID: <20110918152101.GA88715@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, gerald@FreeBSD.org, Juergen Lock Subject: Re: Has anyone tested the jack update - am I ok to commit it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:22:33 -0000 On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:19:27PM -0400, b. f. wrote: > > This port is maintained by this list (multimedia@) so I thought > > I better ask once more before committing... :) The update is > > here: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/jack-0.120.1.patch > > > > and I first mentioned it in this thread: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-September/012432.html > > > > (Using a midi keyboard with FreeBSD (jack update, ardour3 alpha...)) > > While I understand you have already invested some time in testing > this, I don't think it would be wise to update only to 0.120.1 -- the > latest release is 0.121.2, and the release notes for 0.120.2 and > subsequent releases mention not only significant enhancements, but > some important bug-fixes, e.g.: > Ooops! I guess that's what I get for only checking the latest version number on the project homepage... I'll prepare an updated update. :) > "Fix issues with stack initialization in client threads that stole > large chunks of the stack from applications", > > "Fix memory overrun when calling jack_get_ports() with arguments that > lead it to return all existing ports", > > "Remove client->control->nframes data element and use > control->engine->buffer_size. This fixes erroneous behaviour when > trying to get the buffer size associated with JACK port type", > > ... > > Also, please consider merging the following changes in yours: > > -- clean up ugly flag handling > Can you elaborate? > -- make the building of the HTML documentation an OPTION, > off-by-default -- the doxygen dependency, which by default drags in > many Python, graphviz, TeX, and Qt4 dependencies, is too heavy a > burden for package builders and testers, and it was never a good idea > to require it in order to build a small audio server. (These changes > could be replaced by packaging the documents in a separate, > locally-mirrored tarball, or, provided that the port is kept > up-to-date, by downloading them from the master site.) Ok, making docs an OPTION should be easy. Thanx! Juergen