0003873: Add runtime check of JACK version to give a warning rather than crashing

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003873	ardour	bugs	public	2011-03-23 14:43	2011-07-03 00:53

Reporter	deva	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Product Version	3.0-alpha1
Target Version	3.X

Summary	0003873: Add runtime check of JACK version to give a warning rather than crashing
Description	Would it be possible to check the jackd version before trying to start it? This way a warning message could be issued to the user instead of just quitting. NOTE: I have jackd 0.109.2 installed which does not support the -r parameter.
Tags	No tags attached.

paul 2011-03-23 22:22 administrator ~0010386	JACK 0.109.2 was deprecated in December of 2008. The announcement on jackaudio.org said: "On behalf of the JACK development community, I am happy to announce the release of JACK 0.116.0. This is an important release, because it fixes all the problems reported with 0.115.6 and now makes 0.109.2 completely obsolete. Nobody should be using 0.109.2 within a few weeks, and even that is only to allow for distributions to update." We will not take responsibility for tracking the unbelievable use of this ancient version of JACK, though I do take your point that a runtime check of the version would not be a bad idea. I'll consider adding it to the ardour3 sanityCheck program or startup script.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-03-23 14:43	deva	New Issue
2011-03-23 22:22	paul	Note Added: 0010386
2011-03-24 12:06	cth103	cost	=> 0.00
2011-03-24 12:06	cth103	Target Version	=> 3.0-beta1
2011-07-03 00:53	cth103	Status	new => acknowledged
2011-07-03 00:53	cth103	Target Version	3.0-beta1 => 3.X
2011-07-03 00:53	cth103	Summary	Ardour crashes if jack is too old. => Add runtime check of JACK version to give a warning rather than crashing