#1038763 RFP: portmidi2 -- PortMidi - Cross-Platform MIDI IO

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Nicholas D Steeves
Date:
2025-11-29 16:53:00 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1038763#5
Date:
2023-06-21 01:39:23 UTC
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To:
* Package name    : portmidi2
  Version         : 2.0.4
  Upstream Author : Ross Bencina and Phil Burk, Roger B. Dannenberg
* URL             : https://github.com/PortMidi/PortMidi
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : PortMidi - Cross-Platform MIDI IO

PortMidi is a Cross-Platform MIDI IO that supports both real and
virtual midi input and output devices.

I recently learned that future releases of Hydrogen Drum Kit (v1.3.x
series) will depend on the new PortMIDI series.  The most recent
stable release of Hydrogen (1.2.1) depends on portmidi >=2; however,
it's still easy to patch Hydrogen to use Portmidi 217

To be honest, I'm not sure if a new source package will be required,
but I'm supposing that it will be necessary because we've had
portaudio "217" since 2016, and I assume that there will be many
breaking changes.  If this is not the case, please reasign this bug to
src:portmidi and make it a standard request for new upstream version.

Regards,
Nicholas