Timidity needs to bite the dust

Neil Stevens neil at qualityassistant.com
Fri Nov 22 09:18:17 GMT 2002


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On Thursday November 21, 2002 09:27, George Staikos wrote:
> I think that Timidity has to go.  It has too many severe problems.  It
> doesn't follow KDE standards, the build process is ugly, it uses almost
> full cpu on my dual athlon to play a single midi file, it is ancient,
> and it conflicts with modern versions of Timidity++.
>
> Can we junk this for 3.1.0 or at least the next release?

Without it we can't play midi sounds on a lot of systems, though.

That said, I wouldn't be opposed to asking that the maintainers of kmidi 
and aktion move their code to aRts for the next release.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
Delenda est Carthago
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