On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 02:07 +0000, Ben Wheeler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:02:26PM -0800, Albert Santoni wrote: > > Basically, most of the Xponent support stuff was massive ugly hacks > > ;p > > In my defence, at the time, massive ugly hacks seemed to be the way > things were done. I tried to keep my massive ugly hacks less massive > and less ugly than the Hercules ones ;)
This is a good point and I want to clarify that I didn't mean to imply any sort of blame. The MIDI code wasn't very well written to begin with, and it looks like it just turned into a giant mess because a lot of people were making small patches to it here and there without anyone having a full grasp of how all of the MIDI stuff worked. Of course, this includes those of us who were coding before you, and I think we let all of these hacky patches slip by with minimal review because we failed to understand the MIDI code ourselves. So while I not-so-eloquently called our current implementation of Spread64 a hack, this isn't your fault as the other "senior" developers and I failed to give MIDI work the oversight that it needed, back when it needed it. Given our limited man-hours and the fact none of us are the original Mixxx developers, stuff like this happens, but as long as we can learn from these mistakes and clean stuff up (or rewrite when necessary), then we keep moving forwards. Live and learn. :) Thanks, Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
