Re: dropping vmpk in favour of jack-keyboard

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:21:25PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>> 
>> a while ago I noticed that the software provided by the “vmpk” package
>> doesn’t work.  It is supposed to create a window displaying a MIDI
>> keyboard that can be used to send MIDI messages to other applications
>> via JACK, but it does nothing at all.  I tried to debug this but I
>> cannot seem to find the cause.
>> 
>> Now that we have “jack-keyboard”, which works just fine, I’m thinking
>> about just removing “vmpk”.  What do you think?  Any objections?
>
> I don't have any opinions about vmpk, but I think it would be good to
> ask upstream for advice about the buggy behaviour, if there is active
> upstream maintenance.
>
> But, I know that means doing more work for a package you don't need
> anymore. So I understand if you prefer to remove the package.

Same here.  And I trust your judgment on the usefulness/usability, so if
there’s no feedback within a week or so, I’d say you can go ahead.

Ludo’.