From: David Gerard Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Open Music Date: 25 Oct 2002 23:39:57 -0400Is anyone working on this: http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/repmus/OpenMusic? Apparently they GPL'd the sources, and you can download it, but it's written in Lisp, and MCL PPC Lisp at that. However, as they put it: "At the beginning, this will make sense only to people owning the Digitool compiler. Although we are conscious that this limitation does not fit clearly into the GPL framework, we think that making the sources available is an oppurtunity to raise collaborations leading to new versions of OM that would depend only on open sources compiler, particularly on linux platforms" I did speak with some Ircam people at Darmstadt this past summer, and I don't think they really have the interest in doing the port themselves. However, Ircam certainly isn't anti-Linux, so they might be able/willing to help/be persuaded to work on it. (Fran�ois, and Norbert, if you're on this list, feel free to comment.) -dgm
Until now, we did'nt have the internal resources to develop a full linux version of OpenMusic. However a fragmental prototype of OM/Linux based on cmucl had been developed by Camilo Rueda and his team at Cali Univsersity in Colombia. See http://escher.puj.edu.co/openmusic/
Things are changing now, thanks to the Agnula (A GNU Linux Audio Distribution) project. This project is funded by the European Commission, coordinated by Tempo Reale in Florence, and involves Ircam (coordinator : Francois Dechelle) as a partner. See http://www.agnula.org/
Thanks to Francois Dechelle's support, we may now envision the integration of OmLinux in the following monthes, as well as the definition of a coherent development strategy between OMLinux and OM/OsX.
More info to come soon...
G�rard Assayag
Music Representation Team
IRCAM
