On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:25:40PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > I don't think, that this is the reason. There are several other > reasons, the most important one is: The announcement asking for help > was just some days ago, and generally no new project starts in just a > couple of days, especially not at that time of the year. > > Getting developers to join a project is one of the hardest things to > do in the Free Software world and it takes a lot of time. Just think > about Ardour: For a long time this was mainly the project of Paul > alone, IIRC. He pushed things forward and over the *years* has found a > good amount of co-developers. And Ardour is of interest to many more > people than a configuration tool for a piece of hardware, that not > many people own or will buy, because - let's face it - it's expensive. > > I'm currently struggling with getting support for a strange kind of > webcam into Pd, and as I'm currently the only one using such a beast, > I'm on my own for now. That's the way it is, patience is a virtue, > time is limited etc. etc. I don't blame anyone, and in my experience > there will always come support for something sooner or later. >
This explanation sounds more serious for me, but I'm not a C++ coder and i couldn't surely manage this project myself for the beginning :( Nevertheless, good look with your webcam :) Philippe
