I would like to have the "sfront" package available in Gentoo. "sfront" is a tool that implements the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard, and is open source. The home page is at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html I believe it is quite stable, although I've only used it on x86 Windows/CygWin and Linux systems. The last update was October of 2002. I believe the only dependency is "gcc". The full source package is at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfront.tar.gz and the package is GPLd. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: No problem -- feature request.
could you provide us with an ebuild for this?
Please look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml for instructions how to create ebuild files.
This actually looks like an easy ebuild. I just looked at the Debian package and it essentially loads everything into "/usr/share/doc" except for the main executable, which goes into "/usr/bin". One hitch is that the tarball upstream is always labelled "sfront.tar.gz" regardless of the version number. Is there an easy way to deal with this? This is a nice package; it's kind of a "baby CSound" and the source orchestra language is a *lot* easier to read than CSound ".orc" files. So I'll take a shot at packaging it, and helping out users who want to learn about it -- I can't commit to long-term tracking of it, though. It might end up getting orphaned.
Reopen if you have an ebuild. Meanwhile, marking LATER.
