2009/4/26 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com>:
What is VST?
VST's and VSTi's are audio plugins and instruments usually written for
Windows. They are professionallyand widely used in Digital Audio
Workstations (DAWs), such as Cubase.
In fact, they are mostly nonfree (I found some free (as in beer) VST's
but I didn't encounter a free (as in freedom) VST's yet).
Here is more information in case you are interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology
There is a dssi plugin wrapper designed for using these Windows VST
plugins in Linux. And I packaged it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492221
In order to use dssi-vst on x86_64, it needs to be built against 32bit
wine + 64bit other libraries. Now here are my questions:
1- Does our buildsys support such builds? Fedora's x86_64 buildsys
does not contain wine, and I'm reluctant to submit this package just
i386, because it won't be much useful with x86_64 audio software
(ardour, rosegarden etc)
If this is a buildsys question, it would matters to ask at
a buildsys
admin, and/or the wine maintainer.
If wine got prevented from the Fedora buildsys, that's not to prevent
building with it, but more likely to prevent linking against 32bit
libraries on 64bit builder.
Maybe it can be allowed to have wine.i386 in some override repository,
or to build the -devel subpackage (where the headers live), as noarch
so it can ends in the x86_64buildroot.
2- Since there are no known free VST plugins which one can use with
dssi-vst, I am also not sure if this is Fedora material. What do you
folks think?
This is a question for FE-Legal for a first step, then for us if it
get refused.
My opinion is that it should be accepted by FE-Legal. as soon as we
don't provides theses binary only vst plugins.
(users can do whatever they want after Fedora is installed, that
shouldn't be our problem).
Nicolas (kwizart)