14 Aug
2004
14 Aug
'04
1:47 a.m.
On Friday 13 August 2004 09:55 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
John Check wrote:
Okay, that's sensible.
On Friday 13 August 2004 06:33 pm, Erik Steffl
wrote:
oh, what I meant was: in each case, not always. In a sense that each
project starts from nothing, goes through sort of something usable and
hopefully gets to a stage when it is usable by (acceptable to) end-user.
John Check wrote:
The operative word is _always_. How long is such a thing tolerable? On Thursday 12 August 2004 03:34 pm, Erik Steffl
wrote:
>John Check wrote:
>...
>
>>One act gigging with this stuff is worth a dozen coders when it comes
>> to legitimizing the platform. There's so much potential with what's
>> here today that it blows my mind, but if it's "by geeks, for
geeks"
>> it really limits were
>
> not that long ago it wasn't even that. The sound/audio/music software
>in linux is improving rapidly. obviously, you get the by geeks for
> geeks stuff first because it cannot be any other way - it takes time
> to make the program stable enough to be usable by general public.
Yup. There's a definite progression. I'm not unfamiliar with development
cycles, as far as does it _have_ to be that way, it's a debatable point.
not really, you will always have nothing, then something incomplete
sort of usable and only after that there's something usable (if you're
lucky:-) and it seems like linux audio is getting there,
i.e. it is not
stagnating (that was my main point). And I agree that it is at the point
where ease of use and documentation starts to be really important (which
I think is your main point).
Yes. IMO we're clearly in "beta" territory (no pun)
erik