[Sugar-devel] Which Csound package to go on sugar?

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:31:36PM +0000, victor wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have just been playing with the latest sugar on a stick and I have a
> suggestion/recommendation. The package 'csound' currently being
> included with sugar should be substituted with the package 'olpcsound'.
> 
> I have just removed it and replaced it via yum with olpcsound. There 
> seem to be a lot of advantages to it:
> 
> 1. csound is 5.03, olpcsound is 5.08
> 2. csound uses portaudio and portmidi by default, which we don't need and
> complains if you don't set OPCODEDIR (in fact it won't work).
> olpcsound uses ALSA for everything and this actually performs better,
> and there are no complaints there
> 3. olpcsound is ligther and better designed to integrate with what sugar
> needs. It can be expanded if we need extra functionality. A good lot of
> effort was put into designing a subset of csound for this, it is a shame
> to waste it.
> 4. Suppport for native pulseaudio IO was only added after 5.08.
> 
> How should we act on this?
> 
> Victor
> 
> Ps.: by the way, congratulations to you all on the SoaS effort, it
> works perfectly here, first time I plugged into an ordinary laptop!
> I am impressed with it.

for next SoaS-1(f10 based) release I'm going to package olpcsound
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas-specs/repos/mainline/blobs/master/0.84/sugar-tamtam-common/SPECS/sugar-tamtam-common.spec

-- 
Aleksey