hi thomas,

> 1) Ease of access: One has to put a lot of time into getting the  
> system to work, because of the amount of dependencies and because of  
> restrictions of compiler etc. versions. It is sure great from a  
> developer's standpoint to use the newest c++ etc. features but it is  
> not at all from a user's standpoint. 

well, i guess you are referring to my limited support of <gcc-4.1 ...
the problem of these compilers was the limited support of atomic
operations ... 
you might know as well as i, that maintaining hand-written assembler
code for various compilers/platforms is quite hard ... i just didn't
want to spend more days of debugging low-level assembler code ... 

i will never bundle gcc, python, qt & pyqt. and i don't bundle portaudio
& libsndfile for now, since they are not that easy to bundle ...

> Another point is the  
> usage of the git repository. I have been participating more when nova  
> used the svn system, because it was installed on my system. I have git  
> installed in the meantime, but i have no time and motivation how to  
> deal with it, also given that nova is the only project that makes use  
> of it (of the ones i use)

of course, i cannot help you with that ... seeing git's superiority, i
do not understand, why anyone voluntarily uses svn ... 

> 2) Compatibility: I'm sure that there are compelling reasons to drop  
> compatility to existing systems from a developer's viewpoint, but  
> since i'm not sure that nova can do all or most of the things that i  
> need for my work, i can't really afford to put time into it. I would  
> have to start from scratch with all of the framework (externals,  
> abstraction) that i have become used to.

of course i see your point, however i didn't want to do the same hacks
for certain problems, that have been used in pd/max for the last 20
years ...

tim

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