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Re: dropping vmpk in favour of jack-keyboard
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: dropping vmpk in favour of jack-keyboard |
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Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:59:32 +0200 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:21:25PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> a while ago I noticed that the software provided by the “vmpk” package
>> doesn’t work. It is supposed to create a window displaying a MIDI
>> keyboard that can be used to send MIDI messages to other applications
>> via JACK, but it does nothing at all. I tried to debug this but I
>> cannot seem to find the cause.
>>
>> Now that we have “jack-keyboard”, which works just fine, I’m thinking
>> about just removing “vmpk”. What do you think? Any objections?
>
> I don't have any opinions about vmpk, but I think it would be good to
> ask upstream for advice about the buggy behaviour, if there is active
> upstream maintenance.
>
> But, I know that means doing more work for a package you don't need
> anymore. So I understand if you prefer to remove the package.
Same here. And I trust your judgment on the usefulness/usability, so if
there’s no feedback within a week or so, I’d say you can go ahead.
Ludo’.