IcedTea6 1.2 Released!

[Anthony Green]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Guido,
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 13:21 +0200, Guido Kämper wrote:
>   
>> congratulations to the new version!
>>     
>
> Thanks!
>
>   
>> One question: The gnu classpath has a support for using DSSI  
>> instruments in the sound libraries. Are there plans to include this  
>> into the IcedTea platform - or is it already included? That would be  
>> really cool:)
>>     
>
> No it hasn't been integrated yet. All midi handling is currently being
> done through Gervill, a software synthesizer. This has as advantage (or
> disadvantage, depending on your view), that no direct integration with
> the native platform soft synths needs to be done.
>
> I have CCed Anthony Green, who originally wrote the DSSI backend for GNU
> Classpath, to see if he might be interested in porting it to IcedTea.
> Hi Anthony! :)
>   
Hi Mark.  The DSSI providers were written using JNI, so they should be 
easy to port over to IcedTea.  I'm happy to try.  It will give me 
something to do on my flight today.

AG