26 Nov
2003
26 Nov
'03
10:40 p.m.
--Lea:
Truth be told, this is one of the most usable Linux
audio apps I've seen in a long time... coming from a
novice to Linux audio coding and sadly, it is probably
because he didn't try to make it compatible with the
many Linux audio standards (just one more thing to
discourage him from making Linux apps)
--Stonekeeper:
That's a problem with the distros of Linux and not
with his codemanship. No one but a programmer should
be required to compile an app from scratch.
--Lea:
I think you are grossly underestimating the importance
of aethetics! and the gui is part aesthetics, part
usability.
-Thomas J. Webb
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Generally, musicians don't give a toss whether
something is
free(Opensource) or not (let the flaming begin).
Exactly. I think programmers need to stop being
elitists. It is hurting the adoption of Linux. To most
people I know that don't code, free as in beer and
free as in speech are indistinguishable. Their
attraction to OpenOffice is their naive free ride
complex and nothing else.
--Stonekeeper:
and doesnt
interact well with the rest of the
Linux stuff
> (jack/ladspa). Also
considering linux distros losing their binary
compatibility
every now and then, nobody ensures that this will
continue working
> in the future. Look, spend your effort giving the guy a pat on the
back and stop
sh*tting on his efforts to bring a decent music
program to the linux
community. He probably knows nothing about binary
compatibility! Give
him a hand if you feel it's an issue.
agreed. I think if someone told him that he'd be
scorned for not letting us peer into the code and
making it JACK and LADSPA and ABCD and LMNOP and the
new, experimental ZNABCD (ZNABCD is not ABCD)
compatible, he would be scared away for sure. Good
thing he knew of none of this!
Let's start a misinformation campaign: "make audio
programs for Linux! It's easy! Fewer audio standards
to worry about! supportive developers that will
applaud you for making a good try! No open-source
zelouts to speak of!" Hmmm.. I don't know what
programmer would be dumb enough to buy this nonsense..
--Stonekeeper:
On the other
hand, cheesetracker has about the
same functionality (probably
more in many aspects), and it's opensource,
only
lacks the nice gui :)