On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:12, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:

> Has anyone else gotten the alsa driver to work?

I certainly did.

> One thing I wanted to say was this--it's a poor choice to have the INSTALL or 
> README docs about how to build with Scons refer to online documentation as 
> csounds.com or whatever--it ought to be packaged with the source--why make 
> the user jump through another hoop? What if they can't get online for some 
> reason?

Well, it was not my idea, but the reasoning behind removing the detailed
build instructions from INSTALL was to avoid duplicating documentation in
multiple places which need to be maintained separately.

By the way, you do not need to build the documentation yourself, nor have
to use CVS, unless you want the latest development code. The documentation
in various formats (HTML, PDF, etc.), as well as source tarballs are
available at the SourceForge download page:
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81968

> Whoever puts together these source packages *might* want to think about 
> that---this is why people shy away from open source projects alot. The entire 
> open source movement almost has a blindness to the importance of easy to use 
> and existent docs!

Of course, the average users should not have to build from sources
themselves (I assume you did already try Csound5.01_i686.rpm, and then
Csound5.01-i386f.tar.gz or Csound5.01-i386d.tar.gz, and all failed to work,
but if not, it may be worth giving a try). That is also one of the reasons
why having a full, ready to use binary package included with Linux
distributions is a good idea.


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