On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 07:37:57PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: > I had a look to the BTS and all the bugs are upstream dependant (one open > since 1997). But : > > - I have been unable to find a sign of an active development : seems stop > till 1996; the only page found was referring to Debian pages, or rpm... > > - timidity provides same functions or more,is GPLed, has console and X11 > support, is actively under development (0.2i was released in 1995, but > I found 2.1.8 (IIRC) release in december 1999); > > - I have seen at least one ITP about a package referring to timidity. So, > perhaps not a "standard", but something other people take care off.
I think playmidi serves a useful function. I have decent hardware MIDI so I do not need the software wavetable services of timidity. It works OK for me. Lack of upstream development does not make a program bad. I maintain some very old programs too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
