gscanbus-0.7.1

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:09:29 -0800, Jim Hayward
<jimhayward at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:49 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >    I was around 1394 development when this got done. You're correct
> > that the project probably hasn't been touched in a long time. However
> > there are no other progams under Linux that do anything like that
> > program.
> 
> Hmm, thats to bad if the program works well that there isn't a current
> replacement.

Well, I think that the code is fine for when it was written. It's our
collective choice to move forward with new C compilers. This is what
happens when we make choices like this. Pretty much the same thing
with DOS programs, etc.

That said I have it running on my FC2 system so I don't think there
*has* to be any magic about this. This machine is FC2 and then updated
with the PlanetCCRMA flow:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

Fernando supplies gscanbus and it works here with my 1394 drive which
I was just using a few minutes ago with Muse, Ardour, Jack and
LinuxSampler

> 
> > It's probably best to contact the author and see if he'll
> > help and possibly to look for someone to take it over.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the source code at all. I just looked at what was
> causing the compile errors, but porting the program to GTK 2.x would
> probably take some time do too. When I get a chance I'll take a look at
> it and if it doesn't require a lot of time (it doesn't appear that it
> probably would), I'll get it at least compile and I'll post a patch.

Oh, doing a port would be a really big job I think. Go with the
Planet. Much easier!

- Mark