Contributing a partially-functional port for nted

[Travis Briggs]

I've been hoping for an ALSA port for OS X since the early days of
Darwin. Unfortunately, it largely consists of kernel modules, so it
really ain't gonna happen.

I have thought about writing a bridging interface between ALSA and
CoreAudio...but a project like that would likely take years.

I'll contribute the patches to the author of nted and also put them
together in a portfile.

-Travis

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 16:31, Travis Briggs wrote:
>
>> I recently patched nted
>> (http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml) to
>> work in my macports environment. As distributed, it depends on ALSA
>> for music score playback. I removed all references to ALSA data types,
>> and made any functions that utilized them non functioning. So now the
>> program works well, you can create and edit documents, but when you
>> try to configure MIDI playback, or activate MIDI playback (using the
>> play button), nothing happens.
>>
>> I was wondering if this sort of patch would be useful for the project.
>> If so, I'll look into the documentation about how to create a port
>> file (and volunteer to maintain it). If not, I'll probably just
>> distribute the patch files myself.
>
> Possibly.
>
> I note that ALSA stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, so I do not
> know if it can work on Mac OS X. If it can, then a port for it should be
> added and then nted would presumably work without patches.
>
> If ALSA cannot work on Mac OS X, then you should contribute your patches
> upstream, since they would be useful to all Mac users, not just those using
> MacPorts. Until the patches are accepted upstream, a portfile in MacPorts
> could apply those patches itself. You could file a port request ticket for
> nted and attach your patches, and a portfile if you've written one.
>
>