From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dropping vmpk in favour of jack-keyboard
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:32:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161013223230.GA14481@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuo0hrmy.fsf@elephly.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-13 21:21 dropping vmpk in favour of jack-keyboard Ricardo Wurmus
2016-10-13 22:32 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-10-18 15:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
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