Bug 561582 – media-sound/carla-9999: new package

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Porcupine of the Moon 2015-09-26 19:20:22 UTC]

I wrote a simple ebuild for "carla", which is an audio plugin host.

http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Porcupine of the Moon 2015-09-26 19:21:23 UTC]

Created attachment 412996 [details]
ebuild

[Comment 2 Porcupine of the Moon 2015-09-26 19:22:39 UTC]

I'm not sure about the license.
The source files contain both the GPL and LGPL.

[Comment 3 Dennis Schridde 2021-03-20 14:57:40 UTC]

The PipeWire developers recommend to use either Carla or Catia for PipeWire (and JACK) for use-cases that the loopback module serves for PulseAudio: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/543#note_845943

Catia appears to be a the simpler alternative from a user perspective and a quick look at screenshots.  There is an ebuild request for that: https://bugs.gentoo.org/777390

I had a quick look into Carla:

HOMEPAGE="https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla"
LICENSE="GPL-2.0 ISC" # and possibly more

The source lives at: https://github.com/falkTX/Carla
The code is C++ except for the frontend, which appears to be partially written in Python.  It depends on Qt and its build system uses custom Makefiles.

[Comment 4 Dennis Schridde 2021-03-20 14:58:18 UTC]

P.S. Carla by now also has releases.  Version 2.2.0 is currently the latest.