On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:

I'm playing with chuck 1.1.5.2 on Linux-based Pentium 4 and dual-Opteron systems. First of all, chuck is fascinating and entertaining.

Please accept the following comments as an offer of assistance for improving chuck:

1) The current build system is very simple, but also very non-traditional and inflexible for a Unix environment. An autoconf build might be more effective, along the lines of

../configure --sound=alsa --prefix=/usr/local/bin make make install

this is a very good idea - we wanted to do this but haven't gotten around to it. if you want to contribute to this that would rock.

2) Chuck is sometimes balky (e.g., it can't find the sound card) on my Pentium 4, but it works fine most of the time. On my AMD64, I get the same segmentation fault mentioned by Mark Constable.

let's figure this out on chuck-dev.

3) During a build with -Wall -pedantic, I see quite a few warnings, ranging from portability problems to casting problems.

Ah, good idea!

Are any of these issues something you are interested in having someone such as myself take a look at?

Yes!

If so, what is the best procedure for providing patches to chuck?

we roll in patches into CVS/release.

Is the developer's mailing list working? I haven't seen any messages therein.

it's working, and it's about to be used. Thank you Scott for the constructive suggestions! We accept all. Best, Ge!