Sebastian Moors wrote:
> Gabriel M. Beddingfield schrieb:
>> Hi guys... here's my answer... :-)
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 2. Those that shed the emphasis on drums and see Hydrogen
>>> as a comprehensive music application for
>>> live-performance sequencing, sampling, and looping.
>>>
>> This one inspires the heck out of me. :-) However, realizing this vision
>> will end up being *almost* a total rewrite of Hydrogen. Both the back-end
>> and the UI.
>>
>> In the _end_, these are two different programs/applications. At some
>> point ("sooner or later"), the efforts would have to be divided to achieve
>> both goals. It's possible that a common back-end could be utilized for
>> both goals... but that would take careful coordination and planning
>> (because the back-end would be totally rebuilt and repackaged).
>>
>> *sigh* Now what?
>>
>>
> To be honest: I don't know :)
>
> What comes to my mind at first is the time effort. I had not a lot of
> time for hydrogen in the past month, and i don't think that this will
> change, so i can't offer great help when doing big changes.
>
> Maybe we can work on a solution which makes use of your UI proposal, but
> in such a way that it is possible to work with it in a similar way (
> workflow) as in 0.9.4. Should be possible, imho.
> The backend problem stays, of course. Are you planning a (more or
> less..) complete rewrite here?
I would like to add a general plea here for avoiding a complete rewrite.
Hydrogen is a very useful tool right now. It is the only
full-featured, widely used, FOSS drumming software, AFAIK. I would be
very sad if, as a result of the effort spent refactoring, 0.9.4 was the
last working version for a long time. Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software)
wrote a good article a bunch of years ago on approaching this kind of
task. Joel's got pretty strong beliefs about the right and wrong ways
to do things, and the article is written from the perspective of
commercial software, but I think it's got a lot of good advice in it:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Dave
> - Sebastian
>
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