Cecil Coupe

portaudio-dev is still evil on ubuntu - I just tried - hopefully I didn't break anything.

Standard Ubuntu apt-get settings. Would it be different if my Ubuntu was a couple years newer? Perhaps, perhaps not - no confidence in that project (less after you noitice the...

If you don't understand the linux sound mess,, at the bottom you have devices and device drivers and then a slightly higher level alsa, and mixers, and then there is...

You never had a jackd installation in Linux ;-). We can't depend on portaudio being installed on linux. Nor can we ship the libportaudio.so with Shoes because it's a 'system...

> Does Audacity work on your Linux? Yes, but its using the one of the pseudo ALSA interfaces setup by pulseaudio. Is a portaudio.so involved? Who knows. The problem, once...

BUT I'm using apt-get to install the Ubuntu portaudio-dev - and it was compiled with jackd and has a jackd dependecy when it was built/packaged that apt-get warns about and...

I tried on a Mint 18 VM (unbuntu apt-get based but more current) still drags in jackd and many other things no rational user wants if you let it. In...

The bloopsaphone gem needs to test its environment better - it's not using my rvm ruby. Or maybe the error is on me? Without ffi and checking for so/dlll, Shoes...

Lets set some top level goals for this gem like creature. What ever is included in Shoes **will not** require installation into system directories or user reconfiguration which might destroy...

Yes, it would require a 'Shoes-Only' gem and it could include midi it it can detect the so/dll and adapt it's behavior if the request so/dll is not available.