4 Jan
2005
4 Jan
'05
7:25 a.m.
Hallo,
Erik de Castro Lopo hat gesagt: // Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:38:32 -0000 (UCT)
"Dubphil" <dubphil(a)free.fr> wrote:
I don't think, that this is the reason. There are several other
reasons, the most important one is: The announcement asking for help
was just some days ago, and generally no new project starts in just a
couple of days, especially not at that time of the year.
Getting developers to join a project is one of the hardest things to
do in the Free Software world and it takes a lot of time. Just think
about Ardour: For a long time this was mainly the project of Paul
alone, IIRC. He pushed things forward and over the *years* has found a
good amount of co-developers. And Ardour is of interest to many more
people than a configuration tool for a piece of hardware, that not
many people own or will buy, because - let's face it - it's expensive.
I'm currently struggling with getting support for a strange kind of
webcam into Pd, and as I'm currently the only one using such a beast,
I'm on my own for now. That's the way it is, patience is a virtue,
time is limited etc. etc. I don't blame anyone, and in my experience
there will always come support for something sooner or later.
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
Recently I have succeeded in convicing a Manufacturer (Wave Idea) to
consider the importance of giving Linux support to his products. I was
really convince myself that this initiative will be encouraged by the
Linux Audio community. That's why I have posted an help request to make
Wave Idea products fully Linux compliant.
The problem is that the device you wrote about was a MIDI interface and
the LA community seems much more interested in digital audio than it is
in MIDI. I'm sure if your device was a high end, reasonably priced
multi-channel digital audio interface you would have been overwhelmed
with responses.