Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Atlazz

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The project was approved. I guess that you'll have an opportunity
to change the tarbal name in the next release ;-)

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Felix Rabe <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Atlazz
 > System name: atlazz
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Jaime E. Villate already reviewed and approved the source code of this
 > project.  He only wanted its name (\'GNU Gnuzz\') to be changed
 > temporarily before accepting the project for GNU.  I chose \'Atlazz\'
 > for this purpose.  The tarball mentioned below hasn\'t been changed to
 > reflect the renaming, because I think (and hope) this isn\'t necessary.
 > 
 > ----
 > Atlazz - A modular data stream engine
 > 
 > The idea started while using a non-free Win32 sound application called
 > Buzz.
 > 
 > In Buzz, you arrange audio plug-ins (filters and generators), shown as
 > small rectangles, in a window and connect some of them together.  At
 > the center you have a \'Master\' rectangle which is not a plug-in, but
 > delivers the sound data it gets to the speakers or to a (WAV) file.
 > You can control plug-ins through parameters and you can send notes to
 > the generator plug-ins to generate the desired tones.
 > 
 > While Buzz is only made for DSP stuff, Atlazz is much more general.
 > (But at the end, you should also be able to do similar things as in
 > Buzz (ie. DSP stuff).)  Currently, it is implemented as a command-line
 > tool requiring both an XML file name describing connections between
 > plug-ins as the sole argument, as well as the plug-ins themselves.
 > Atlazz plug-ins can be used for a wide range of uses.  (The basic
 > plug-ins that are delivered with Atlazz do arithmetic operations,
 > control the stream through conditions, print something to stdout and
 > finish processing on condition.)
 > 
 > Subsequent releases will focus on:
 > 
 >  - moving the actual processor into the Atlazz library (libgnuzz),
 > 
 >  - complete adaption to the GNU Coding Standards,
 > 
 >  - many improvements (eg. at the moment, the only data type is
 >    unsigned 32-bit integer - this should be a pointer to (almost)
 >    arbitrary data),
 > 
 >  - implementing audio plug-ins (for \"emulating\" Buzz behavior), and
 > 
 >  - creating several user interfaces (command line, ncurses, GTK+)
 >    based on libgnuzz.
 > 
 > Atlazz currently requires the LGPLed libraries Libxml2 and Glib.
 > Additionally, it relies upon a standard C library (eg. Glibc).
 > 
 > Atlazz is not yet publicly avaliable, but you can get this release at
 > http://www.xitnalta.com/gnuzz-0.0.2.tar.gz (>250 KB).

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