23 Feb
2013
23 Feb
'13
10:52 p.m.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:53:22 +0100
Nils Gey <ich(a)nilsgey.de> wrote:
Unvisible to most people in here there was a brief discussion in IRC, plus the replies
here already, that made me realize some points I had not considered. I agree that two
lists are not that much and there are probably good reasons to keep them seperate. (But
crossposting is annoying anyway, in most cases.)
But my other points remain:
Just to be clear:
I am a friend of diversity and seemingly "redundant" applications and projects.
There cannot be enough sequencers, samplers, synthesizer, notation programs etc.
But when it comes to infrastructure and core building blocks I see no sense in
seperation. This is the strong point, compared to other operating/eco-systems. We may
friendly compete on a musical or feature basis, but there is no need to border a program
just to make it harder for the users to use the program of the "enemy" (from a
Windows/OSX POV).
In a Linux-Audio world of diversity and individuality, it is good to have central places
and instances. We can do whatever we want but unlike the closed source world we have no
need to create factions and standards that rival with each other, creating artificial
gaps.
The most successful of these instances is JACK itself. A centralized audio server, hailed
and praised by everyone.
And since I am writing this mail already, my personal wish list:
Please join the two blog/RSS planets as well (http://www.planet.linuxmusicians.com/,
http://linuxaudio.org/planet/ )
Merge Yoshimi and ZynAddSubFx, the JACK versions and experimental forks, the session
managers/protocols and a few audio distributions which have not enough manpower and that
can be used to boost the other distributions. "Joining/Merging" also can mean
for one side to step down honorable and retire the project.