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

[Art Hunkins]

Peter,

That sounds wonderful. I'll be right here available to test whenever you 
like.

I'm especially glad that things would be ready for 0.86 Sugar.

I hope I didn't mislead anyone in assessing Csound in 0.84 Sugar (and SoaS 
Strawberry).
I was pointing out that for SoaS-1, updates *are required* for Csound to 
work in an Activity: 1) to Python2.6; 2) installing csound-python, which in 
turn, updates Csound (from OLPCsound). This is fine for developers, but 
tricky for the average user - perhaps a Linux neophyte. It will certainly be 
nice to just make an SoaS stick and go online to download an Activity and 
sound just "plays."

With regard to SoaS-2 beta: Glad to hear it works. I've been unable to use 
it myself, as it does not recognize other USB sticks; so I can't easily copy 
my activities to it. (The Terminal frame also seems to work the opposite 
from SoaS Strawberry; or am I hallucinating?)

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>; <csound at lists.bath.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Re: Getting around a (sound) device assignment problem 
in SoaS


> 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