schism tracker
i should have started this topic earlier about this program. to talk further about it besides my latest dissatisfaction.
a new release was made on february 2. i never tried the "20241226" release because i didn't have a system available to use it. required higher "glibc" than any system i could get into. but i installed linux mint 22.1 "xia" a few days ago. which is good enough. and tried this latest release. now it requires jack server enabled. on my computer i have to run qjackctl first. then this program. this should be allowed disabled. so it runs like october 2024 release. the last one i could use on debian "bookworm" base.
the "run.sh" script doesn't work. fundamentally it does nothing about the problem finding the "utf-8" library it requires. also look at what is written in this file:
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#!/bin/sh
# script to run schism with included libs on linux
# shouldn't™ require bash or any other crap like that.
SCRIPTPATH="$(cd -- "$(dirname "$0")" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; pwd -P)"
env LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SCRIPTPATH" "$SCRIPTPATH/schismtracker" "$@"
apparently an individual became involved in this program. who wasn't around in 2023 or earlier. more used to coding for windows. responsible for this arrogant rambling. which is also an obvious goof that was tested only on his system.
people have asked for soundfont support. personally i would have requested customizable keystroke shortcuts. processed from "rc-type" file or "ini" file. because some of us are on computers which do not have numeric keypad. also support loop points imported from wave file. somebody requested a lua scripting host. which seems now to be abandoned.
i don't know. this is a good program. but it's ugly. i cannot recommended it to anybody anymore. unless they are on arch linux or fedora linux base. it's too bad.
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