On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> If we spin off libhydrogen, we could: >> >> * Offer Hydrogen sampler as a plugin. > > Where's the interface? Do you mean GUI? It depends on the plugin system... but generally plugins don't come with GUI's. There have been several requests to have Hydrogen as a DSSI or LV2 plugin. > Couldn't we just make the existing system more flexible by providing a > class that manages the various interface requirements? H2Core::Hydrogen is a singleton class, as are many other critical classes. This means that there can only be _one_ instance in the application. To get more instances, they have to be in different _processes_ (as opposed to threads or whatnot). Even then, they are programmed in such a way that it's clear "There is only one" (config files, autosave, etc.) This makes it hard to re-use Hydrogen as something like a plugin. Even if you load the "Hydrogen Synth" plugin twice... I'm pretty sure there will only be _One_ hydrogen, _One_ song, _One_ drumkit. ...but I'm talking out of my league on this one. I've never written a plugin. >> * Offer the 'classic' Hydrogen front-end, and possibly >> spin off a new application with the Live-like >> front-end. Both would use the same back-end. > > One interface for this which takes a runtime flag to define the layout > would achieve the same goal. This sounds (to me) like a disaster and a maintenence headache. Why not just fork the front-ends? That's essentially what you're doing with the command-line switch. One way I was thinking we could divide things up is to possibly call the library (or the new front end) "Tritium" -- i.e. radioactive hydrogen. As long as the library provides a consistent API... the maintainers of the two front-ends would be able to chase their different goals without stepping on each other. >> * something else... >> >> > > Phew, I'm a sucker for hard work but not sure if I can accomplish this > one.... ;-) Ha! Well, the concept is very unix-ey. While we're talking about a monolithic front-end, the back end components would be modular in nature... allowing them to be reassembled by other applications to do things that we never dreamed of doing. Peace, Gabriel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
