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Nov 1st, 2001 - csl-0.2.0 released
Sep 2nd, 2001 - new stable releases
Jul 4th, 2001 - aRts at Linuxtag2001
    If you attend Linuxtag2001, there is a talk about aRts and Brahms held in German on Sunday, which you can attend. Details can be found here.

    You can also see aRts live and in action at the KDE booth.

Jun 6th, 2001 - CSL-0.1.2/Gnome-aRts-0.1.2 released
Jun 6th, 2001 - aRts-0.5.4/aRts-extras-0.5.4
Apr 18th, 2001 - CSL-0.1.1/Gnome-aRts-0.1.1 released
Apr 18th, 2001 - aRts-0.5.2
Oct 24th, 2000 - KDE2 released
Sept 18th, 2000 - aRts released with KDE2 final beta - current status
June 27th, 2000 - first screenshot of aRts-0.4.0
    This was just posted at the aRts-mailinglist by stefan:

    If you haven't seen what has been happening with the KDE2.0 aRts stuff lately, I've made a small screenshot, which shows a bit of the things that are already running again. Have a look at this screenshot.

    Some of the highlights that are up & running in the KDE2.0 version are:

    • soundserver stuff (the xmms you see is using artsdsp to play its stuff via aRts)
    • artsbuilder (finally, visual interface again)
    • artscontrol (the tool you see with the FFT scope and the volume control)
    • brahms - the sequencer app
    • realtime midi synthesis

    Of course work remains to be done, but I am really happy with the progress up to now. Nothing of what you see on the screenshot uses the old CORBA stuff.

    The latest development snapshot can be found in the CVS.

June 27th, 2000 - aRts at LinuxTag 2000
Mai 2nd, 2000 - Linuxmusic-Interview with Stefan
Apr 26th, 2000 - new developers, new features
    News from the aRts/MCOP development, part II: there are now quite some developers actively interested in aRts/MCOP. As there is some stuff going on on the kde-multimedia@kde.org list, its probably best if we for now keep aRts/MCOP development coordination there, and aRts-0.3.4.x maintainance here.

    Maybe there'll have to be new organizational structures if the project grows further ;). If people start cooperating effectively now, there'll be quite a few people working on aRts... so here is the original announcement:


    I have received multiple requests right now, of the form: I want to use aRts for <foo>, where foo is currently unsupported.

    Popular foos include threading, gui building, video support, midi support, applying effects inside wave editors and similar. Of course, what everybody wants is a nice example which explains easily how to do foo with aRts, so you can start coding your application ;-).

    Unfortunately, I can't provide this at this point of time. The original plan for KDE2.0 was not to include any of the above foos, and this had the reason that the timing was tight even without them. But I see that it would be cool to have them anyway.

    So I see only one way how we can do this:

    • please communicate with eachother - it doesn't help if we end up having three incompatible ways to do video with aRts after all

      currently, the place for aRts development is kde-multimedia@kde.org there is arts@space.twc.de, too, but it is currently user oriented and maintaining the old aRts-0.3.4 code

      of course sometimes its better to send me a mail, but often, the list is more appropriate, since other people will read it, and eventually, an aRts developer community will be there

    • realease your code as early as possible, not only to me, but to the world kdenonbeta is a good place to do so

    • try to get an understanding of what MCOP is all about - it is not finished, but aRts will live due to that technology

    • read the source, and the (unfortunately very thin) documentation

    • ask where you don't understand things

    • rather do a small enhancement first, than waiting for the completion of everything

    • experiment

    aRts is growing, which is cool. If it is to grow as fast as many of you really want it to, its something I can no longer do alone. I'll try to do the essential components, the next very important thing is aRtsbuilder and some Brahms stuff.

    I'll also try to coordinate documentation and PR stuff as good as I can. But special things - like video - are things where *you* could be the responsible person. ;-)

    In the spirit of the shared effort, I committed the new-tech.html page in kdelibs/arts/doc. Feel free to add new sections to it, write in what you are working on, add links, etc. - there is some video code I wrote there, so there is something to start with.

    I am looking forward to your contributions.

    Cu... Stefan

Apr 26th, 2000 - aRts C API
Feb 07th, 2000 - aRts/MCOP snapshots
Jan 11th, 2000 - aRts/MCOP documentation
Jan 11th, 2000 - The next generation of aRts
Jan 11th, 2000 - arts-0.3.4.1 released!
    As there are three small known bugs in arts-0.3.4, here is a new version that fixes just these problems. They are

    - errno.h needs to be included in src/synthesizer/audiosubsys.cc
    - unistd.h needs to be included in src/ksbuild/execdlg.cpp
    - ksgml2html is never called now by the makefile, since most people don't seem to have that

    If you already have arts-0.3.4, you can also fix them by hand if they occur.


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