Hi, Another brain feeding idea for upcoming LGM :)
Recently I compiled SVN build of Hydrogen -- a cross platform open source drum machine [1]. Hydrogen uses drumkits - libraries of drum samples that are usually stored in a local directory. SVN version features a network drumkits installator. It fetches updated list of available drumkits and lets users download new ones or remove existing ones. What do you think about creating a similar online repository for shared resources and either internal or external clients to it? Internal client for each application means tighter integration, but also more work in common. External standalone-client means less work, but also less integration. The most serious cons, I guess, is that this would clearly be installation into ~/.create and thus not effective for multiuser desktops. Subjects to further consideration: - introducing modularization of shared resources (and thus having separate branches in repo for each kind of shared resource); - introducing basic metadata for resources (name, description); - organization of repository; - administration of repository. Opinions anyone? Can Creative Commons be helpful here? [1] http://hydrogen-music.org Alexandre _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
