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Developers shouldn’t distribute their own software

• PaulDavisThe1st 7y ago
  "Some developers may complain that distros ship their software too slowly, but you shouldn’t sweat it." Our problem over at ardour.org isn't that they're too slow - it's that they don't get it right. Hence our own distro-neutral package, and our policy that this is the only version we can support.
  • rumanator 7y ago
    Can you provide some insight on what distro's don't get right?
    • PaulDavisThe1st 7y ago
      Sorry, this is a bit late. To build Ardour "correctly" requires patches to some of the libraries we use. These patches will never be upstreamed, for a variety of reasons (the most notable: GTK+2 is EOL at this point; next most notable: the patch actually changes the behavior of the library in ways that that we need, but are debatable from a general purpose perspective). By building against the standard libraries, certainly (typically subtle) behaviors no longer work. In addition, they get the packaging wrong - not including certain files, not building certain modules.
      • ddevault 7y ago
        I'm late here myself, but it seems to me the problem is that Ardour sticks to the long-since-EOL'd GTK 2 and relies on non-upstreamable behavior. The bad actor here doesn't seem to be the distros IMO.
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• im3w1l 7y ago
  But why would a distro package software that one uses? And why would people use software they cannot easily install? You need some way of breaking the deadlock.
• kayamon 7y ago
  This attitude is exactly why Unix has never managed to attain the same kind of software ecosystem that other OSs have.