TamTam packaging

Jani Monoses jani at ubuntu.com
Sat Apr 19 10:14:30 EDT 2008


>>> I don't think using the aclient is the better way to make it work on
>>> Debian. This client was build very tight to save cpu cycles on the
>>> XO. The better way is to use the Python API for Csound... (with the
>>> API, don't forget to remove -n flag (no sound) in tamtamorc.csd).
>>> Maybe James can tell you more about aclient.so
>> I did not look closely so did not realize that python-csound is not
>> used. Anyway I'd rather keep changes from the XO version at a minimum
>> for now and not add extra code. The goal is to get it working first.
> 
> When tested on jhbuild, we've got erratic sound.Good luck!

No sound at all here, not even erratic.

> 
>>
>> One important issue I forgot to mention yesterday: there are no
>> licensing headers or copyright files in the sources except in
>> Clooper/audio.cpp which comes from ALSA.
>>
>> Can you when time permits add any kind of copyright notice along the
>> source files? It is impossible to upload to either Debian or Ubuntu
>> otherwise.
> 
> Absolutely! Thanks for the warning...

Can you say which license will it be until you get around to adding it 
to the sources so I get a head start with packaging. While adding 
headers to all files is a lot of work and probably preferable, adding a 
LICENSE file in each xo would do too.

Jani




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