[LAU] Ardour Version Question: 2 versus 3?

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:13 PM, ORL <orl at ammd.net> wrote:

>  Le 04/05/2015 22:03, Paul Davis a écrit :
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> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:02:37PM +0000, Ivan K wrote:
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>> > Why might one prefer Ardour2 over Ardour3?
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>> * When A3 emerged it offered little advantage if you
>> didn't need the new MIDI features.
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>  A4 now has about 3000 bug fixes compared to A2. I suppose that if you
> know that A2 never has a problem with your workflow, good for you.
>
>  For everybody who doesn't know that, A2 is just a completely stupid
> choice.
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> ;)
> Always weighting the words, hey!
> I don't think it's a "complete stupid choice", as well as A4 is not
> either. And if you don't need MIDI, I also think you might not want to
> change, as all the bug fixed weren't criticals,
>

many, many of the bugs were ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. the fact that you may not
run into them with the workflow you use doesn't change this.


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> But I've to say that I felt a bit "lost" when the switch has been done,
> telling my students that A3 arrived, A2 being unsupported,
>

we "supported" A2 by developing A3. we "supported" A3 by developing A4. the
application development process is *never* going to stop. if you choose to
stick with a specific version in order to open historical sessions, that is
fine. But the result of us "supporting" A2 is ... Ardour 4.0. in the future
it will be Ardour 5.0.

i repeat: using Ardour 2.x for new sessions is, in my opinion, completely
indefensible.

and then finally telling them to wait a bit cause there were several severe
> bugs to be fixed - which is no problem to me, that's the way it has to be,
> and I suppose there was no way to allow A2 to open A3 sessions (to be able
> to get back).
>

what program has ever offered forward compatibility?
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