Fabian Greffrath dixit: >cleared out: Do you suggest for SF2 soundfonts to also provide the sf3- >soundfont-gmvirtual package? I mean, technically they should be >compatible, but this would mean we create a symlink with a different >file extension. Do we want this?
Yes, of course we do want this! SF3 readers can also use SF2, they basically uncompress SF3 to SF2 first anyway, and the file extension does not matter really, it’s not MS-DOS here. We have that already in MuseScore, which eats /usr/share/sounds/sf3/MuseScore_General.sf3 which I’m pointing to /usr/share/sounds/sf2/MuseScore_General_Full.sf2 via alternatives if the highest-quality soundfont is in use. I expect that, should ever this fail in some synthesiser, we fix the synthesiser to work with it instead. Sorry I only just saw your previous mail in the thread, my INBOX was a bit unmanageable due to certain threads from a certain other mailing list for a bit until I decided to delete them unread… >Could you please leave a note on -devel that we are going to introduce >two more virtual packages? Meh I might be able to post that but I don’t read -devel due to traffic either except sometimes via the web archives so feel free to do that yourself ☻ bye, //mirabilos, currently melting -- When he found out that the m68k port was in a pretty bad shape, he did not, like many before him, shrug and move on; instead, he took it upon himself to start compiling things, just so he could compile his shell. How's that for dedication. -- Wouter, about my Debian/m68k revival
