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Can you provide some insight on what distro's don't get right?
by rumanator 7y ago
Can you provide some insight on what distro's don't get right?
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoSorry, 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 agoI'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.