[Mageia-dev] Perl MIDI:ALSA module (package suggestion for Mageia)

Sat Dec 8 15:49:40 CET 2012

Hi tux99,
+
+On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:43:47 +0100 (CET)
+tux99-mga at uridium.org wrote:
+
+> Hi,
+> Thanks to Peter Billam there is now a Perl module that gives Perl 
+> complete access to the ALSA MIDI library therefore allowing to easily 
+> create programs in Perl that inteface with MIDI capable synthesizers.
+> 
+> I have packaged up this Perl module for Centos 6 and I think it should 
+> be straightforward to port the Centos 6 spec-file to Mageia, but since 
+> I'm not a Mageia packager (and can't be due to lack of time) I wanted to 
+> bring this to your attention with the hope that a Mageia packager picks 
+> this up and adds this very useful package to Mageia. 
+> 
+
+I now packaged your perl-MIDI-ALSA for Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron after some
+Mageiaisation of the .spec file. Thanks!
+
+If you wish to return the favour you can package Freecell Solver
+( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) for Fedora/CentOS. The .tar.bz2 already has
+a built-in .spec and .spec.in and there's also a Mageia package for it here:
+
+http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/freecell-solver-3.14.1-1.mga3.src.rpm
+
+I should note that it should better be made a suggests of the Fedora PySolFC
+package, because it enhances it (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdqNuX4WJc
+). PySolFC recommends the following flags in build Freecell Solver:
+
+--enable-max-num-freecells=8
+--enable-max-num-stacks=20
+--enable-max-num-initial-cards-per-stack=60
+
+Translated into the new CMake build system, they are:
+
+%cmake -DLOCALE_INSTALL_DIR=%{_datadir}/locale -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=%{_libdir} \
+-DMAX_NUM_FREECELLS=8 -DMAX_NUM_STACKS=20 -DMAX_NUM_INITIAL_CARDS_IN_A_STACK=60
+
+I tried to set up a Fedora VM to prepare the package and test it, but Fedora
+ran extremely slowly on my VirtualBox VM and I couldn't stand it (Mageia and
+other Linux distributions as well as Windows and FreeBSD run fine on different
+VMs). If anyone can she any light on this issue, I'll be grateful as well.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
+> Here are the Centos 6 files:
+> 
+> Spec-file:
+> http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/spec-files/perl-MIDI-ALSA.spec
+> 
+> Source RPM:
+> http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/source/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.src.rpm
+> 
+> Binary RPMS:
+> http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/i686/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.i686.rpm
+> http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/testing/x86_64/perl-MIDI-ALSA-1.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
+> 
+> If you are curious to see what can be done with the MIDI::ALSA Perl 
+> module have a look at a program I wrote with it:
+> http://www.yamahaforums.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5915
+> 
+> Regards,
+> Andy
+> 
+
+
+
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