30 Nov
2007
30 Nov
'07
7:12 a.m.
Dave Robillard wrote:
MIDI. In short: don't rock the boat; all this
Jack/LV2 MIDI stuff is
still getting off the ground...
Well, I see your point. Again, I'll start worrying (or defining
extensions) when it'll be necessary.
Don't you think that there should be a sort of "extension TODO list"? As
you see, I already have certain things in mind, and so do others.
No it isn't, it's extremely elegant.
What's inelegant is cramming too
much garbage into an extension when that garbage is a separate problem.
Both are the extreme ends of the same spectrum, I think.
You want to define a new event type? Define it! No
consensus, no
debates, no fuss, no muss.
That's right. On the other hand, sometimes extension designed by some
guy and then adopted because there was nothing better available, limits
growth of the scene/market (there's enough resistance to a change to
prevent better standards from being adopted).
Think IPv4 vs IPv6 (turning a blind eye to a popular opinion that IPv6
is a complex, bloated piece of junk ;) ).
If that's not elegant, I don't know what is ;)
Maybe all it lacks is a set of well-thought-out well-defined extensions
to start things up?
Or maybe the "invisible hand of the scene" will sort things out by itself.
Krzysztof