Re: [fluid-dev] Imminent 1.1.3 release?

[David Henningsson]

On 2010-10-08 20:00, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Friday 08 October 2010, David Henningsson wrote:
> > I get the feeling that trunk is in quite good shape now, with just
> > low-regression-risc bugfixes since 1.1.2, so perhaps we should release
> > 1.1.3 now?
>
> Yes

Good. I've started to prepare the 1.1.3 release, see
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_3
and
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ReleaseCheckList

Feel free to make additions.

> > That is, before getting our hands dirty with sequencer additions. I also
> > have a few cleanup patches I'd like to apply.
> >
> > Opinions please! And as always, thanks for your commitments (in various
> > ways) to FluidSynth!
>
> I wonder if we need to write some more documentation, because for instance the
> change of the default setting from floats (in autotools) to doubles (in CMake)
> has  gone unnoticed until the ticket #87.

Right, I never said anything about that because I was quite busy at the 
time. Thinking about it there is also the argument that if we ever add 
SSE/SSE2 instructions for optimizing interpolation and/or mixing, that 
would make floats faster because then you can do four at a time.

It actually surprises me that double precision can be faster than single 
precision.

Memory is probably less of concern compared to what it takes to load an 
entire soundfont into RAM.

> Looks like nobody reads the summary
> configuration report printed by both build systems. Maybe the wiki or the
> READMES would be better places.

To be honest, I don't know what people read and what they don't read, so 
I can't give you any valuable feedback there...

> All major distributions have adopted the CMake build system in 1.1.2 without
> finding obstacles, but I would keep the old one during some more time.

Agreed.

// David