[64studio-devel] 0.9.5 is out

[Daniel James]

Hi Ben,

> As an Ardour developer I am often required to run from the newest svn
> version of jack.  Every time I do this on a machine I have to build
> JACK, and then make a symlink to the old JACK lib for all the
> preinstalled apps to work.

I'm not sure why the symlink to the Jack library is expected to have a 
number suffix - perhaps to prevent Jack apps from using an earlier (or 
later) version of Jack. For example on this box I have:

/usr/lib/libjack-0.100.0.so.0 -> libjack-0.100.0.so.0.0.23

rather than the more conventional style:

/usr/lib/libjack.so.0 -> libjack-0.100.0.so.0.0.23

It does seem rather brittle.

> Also I'd like to know why, when I installed Free's new kernel, I was
> unable to load modules built from the newest ALSA; it said "invalid
> module format".

Wrong version of the kernel headers maybe?

> I know that 64Studio is designed for users rather than developers,
> but fixing these two small issues would make it easier for users to
> jump in and try the latest stuff (like Ardour2).

In fact, we do want to make the distro very suitable for developers. 
Without them, we'd have nothing to package :-)

Cheers!

Daniel