does not build with any FLTK release

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giada uses the latest and greatest FLTK git snapshot, and relies on features not available in the last stable FLTK release (at the time of writing this is FLTK-1.3.8 from 2021).

Now I totally understand that wish to use things like SVGs and what not.

Howerver, I also understand that distributions like Debian are not overly keen on shipping anything but released versions of widget libraries like FLTK.

Which leaves me with the problem, that I cannot compile a released version of giada on my Debian system (and with "released version" i mean the "Source code" download from the release page, e.g. https://github.com/monocasual/giada/releases/tag/v0.24.0).

I'm aware that I could just do a git clone to get everything I need, but...

My actual motivation behind all this is that I'm one of the Debian Maintainers of the Debian giada package (which incidentally also become the Ubuntu packages). For the (Debian-official) Debian packages, I have to rely on what is available in Debian itself. Most notably

• I cannot clone some arbitrary git repository during the build process
• I cannot use convenience copies of dependencies vendored into a package (just in case you were thinking of providing a Source download that includes FLTK/JUCE/...

Currently this means, that giada in Debian/Ubuntu is stuck at 0.22.0.

If this is undesired from your side, I see the following options:

• Talk the FLTK team into releasing FLTK-1.4 (this would obviously be best; but I have no idea about their release plan)
• Revert the FLTK-dependency to a released version of FLTK (you lose nifty new FTLK- features)
• Provide support for both FTLK-git and FLTK-1.3.8 (you add code complexity, and testing becomes more complicated)
• Remove giada from Debian (from my POV the worst option)