Agreed, backwards compatibility is important, and especially wise when you can make it break two times less with one more improvement.
diiz wrote > So, we're pretty much ready to release 1.1, but... > > Ok, so I don't really like to rip on other people's code, there's > definitely problems with some of my own code as well so can't really > point fingers... however, lately, I've been thinking that the current > implementation of logarithmic models is flawed. > > Firstly it breaks backwards compat... if you open an old project made > with 1.0 or earlier, and you have automation of a knob that is now > logarithmic, the automation curve will be different. > > Secondly I'm starting to think things like logscale should be done on > the UI level, not on the actual data models... the current way of doing > things is likely to cause problems down the line. Instead of doing the > logscale conversion on the model, I think it might be better for the > model to just contain a hint whether it should be log/linear, and the > knobs & automations could handle the logscale-representation on their > end. Because the automations and widgets have to take logscales in > account anyway, it'd be better for them to handle it entirely... it'd be > a cleaner solution. > > So fixing this is likely to cause yet more delay to the release of 1.1 > (which is already behind schedule by 4 months or so), but I think it'd > be better in the long run because if we release 1.1 as is, it'll break > backwards compat now, and then if we fix the logscale feature later > it'll break backwards compat again. > > I might be able to work on this during the weekend... -- View this message in context: http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com/Let-s-release-1-1-tp10316p10690.html Sent from the lmms-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
