[ardour-dev] ultra-preliminary alpha ardour2 tarball release available

[Mark Knecht]

On 1/10/06, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> The following release is available:
>
>         http://ardour.org/releases/ardour-2.0alpha1.tar.bz2
>
>
> This is an ultra-experimental release, aimed at pulling in a few more
> users who don't want to deal with the CVS snapshot releases.
>
> THE PURPOSE OF THIS RELEASE
>
> Ardour 2.0 is not yet ready for release. But it does run and does a very
> significant majority of what Ardour 0.99 can do. All the patches made to
> 0.99 for the upcoming 0.99.1 release have been added to the ardour 2.0
> source tree.
>
> Your help is needed to
>
>         1) identify problems with the release tarball
>               - can you build it?
>               - can you install the program?
>               - can you run the program?
>
>         2) identify basic problems with Ardour 2.0
>
>               - what things are just totally non-functional
>               - what things are broken to the extent that they
>                  are useless
>
<SNIP>


Hi Paul,
   I got Ardour 2 built on my AMD64 machine. No problems building it
and no problems starting it. No xruns during hookup even at 64/2.
However I tried loading a very simple existing session that had a
single stereo track ripped from a DVD sound track. The track showed up
in the session but there was no audio and it of course didn't play.

   I will investigate more later.

QUESTION: How can I keep both 0.99beta30 and Ardour2-Alpha1 on my
system and quickly switch back and forth between them? (Or even run
them both side by side?)

Thanks,
Mark