New versions of ardour and jack?

neptoon · 2009-04-06 07:40:49

Hi all

Does anyone know the reason why the official archlinux packages for ardour and jack (and some other ProAudio tools) get not updated since half a year or more, although there are newer releases available from upstream?

Arch version of ardour is 2.5, latest upstream release is 2.8.
Jack version is 0.109.2, latest upstream is 0.116.2 (and upstream strongly discourages to use 0.109.2 anymore because of some problems with this release).

Don't get me wrong, I know that I can build them myself using AUR, and this is what I'm doing at the moment. But anyway, it would be nice to have more current packages available.

Sure, I could contact the maintainer of these packages to ask what's holding him back from releasing newer versions and I also could offer my help. But maybe there is a good reason and maybe someone here already knows, so that there's no sense in buggering the maintainer.
Thanks,
Dominik

Allan · 2009-04-06 07:49:29

neptoon wrote:

Sure, I could contact the maintainer of these packages to ask what's holding him back from releasing newer versions and I also could offer my help.

That would be my recommendation here. Especially if you have working PKGBUILDs to attach.

neptoon · 2009-04-06 12:25:45

Thanks, Allan. I'll adapt the PKGBUILDs from ABS to build the new releases and will then contact the author.

schuay · 2009-04-18 08:01:01

any updates on this?

Allan · 2009-04-18 08:09:58

jack is now up to date. Ardour is more difficult (requires ~four deps added to [extra]). It is on my TODO list but I have some other Arch thins to do first.

schuay · 2009-04-18 10:22:01

thanks!

by the way, i'm trying to install the new ardour including vst support on my x86_64 system (ardourvst from AUR), and it seems vst support is incompatible with a 64bit host - how will this be handled in the repo package?

can i use a 32bit chroot to build/use it? will it interact fine with other sound utils from the 64bit environment (jack, alsa,.. ) ?

Last edited by schuay (2009-04-18 10:22:59)

Allan · 2009-04-18 10:31:47

I don't believe it is legal for us to distribute with vst support so that will not be a problem...

neptoon · 2009-04-18 10:54:33

Actually, since version 2.8 Ardour is not using the Steinberg VST SDK anymore to provide vst support. Instead they are using the work from the vestige project which allows distributions to provide binary packages with vst support.

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#1 2009-04-06 07:40:49

New versions of ardour and jack?

#2 2009-04-06 07:49:29

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

#3 2009-04-06 12:25:45

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

#4 2009-04-18 08:01:01

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

#5 2009-04-18 08:09:58

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

#6 2009-04-18 10:22:01

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

#7 2009-04-18 10:31:47

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

#8 2009-04-18 10:54:33

Re: New versions of ardour and jack?

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