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