[Sugar-devel] [Csnd] Re: Getting around a (sound) device assignment problem in SoaS

[Peter Robinson]

Art,

> I'll be happy to do such a page at Csounds.com.
>
> I'll need to wait, however, until the project is complete. Three things need
> to happen:
> 1) The multiple MIDI controller option of 5.10 needs to be patched into the
> Sugar Fedora updates (and shown to work);
> 2) This all needs to be available in a regular Sugar release (hopefully,
> 0.86 but probably later - until then, users/developers won't have easy
> access to all the features of 5.10, and without updates the current and only
> Sugar-on-a-Stick Strawberry [0.84] doesn't have a working Csound at all);
> 3) My Activities are properly posted at Sugar Labs (to be widely available).
> They cannot be posted until #1 occurs, hopefully sometime in October,
> according to Peter Robinson.

I had a very brief look at this a couple of days ago while avoiding
the study I should have been doing. The patch doesn't apply cleanly to
the 5.10.1 release in Fedora so it might take a bit more work than
expected. I'm hoping to get to this in the first week of October and I
will need you to test it at that point to ensure that it works.

Once that is complete I don't see an issue getting this tagged into
the F-12 beta release (and hence SoaS-2 which has the 0.86 sugar
release).

The current soas-1 release has access to all the Fedora-11 updates
which actually does have a working csound in it (once the updates are
applied) as does the current SoaS-2 snapshot. They just currently
don't have support for multiple midi devices.

I think all the issues should be resolved in a couple of weeks.

Peter