On Thursday 30 August 2012 17:29:10 Gregg Wonderly wrote: > I would not have any intent on splitting the streams. Instead, I'd like to > split the programming model of the distribution so that the GUI and > communications would use Java technologies while the audio processing > layers could use the OS native support as a starting point.
Well, I don't like that idea much. For a number of reasons, not the least of which is watching (from a distance) what oracle is doing in the mysql world these days. > > Practically, we could have a much more friendly admin environment, I > believe, if we could shed the simplicity of QT in favor of more elaborate > UI components. > > Gregg all the best, drew > > On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds cool. Also sounds like it would split the stream though and > > disperse the energy on the project. I'd be interested to hear Fred > > Gleason's take on the idea. I'd personally love to have Rivendell on > > Apple hardware even better on OS X but there is a thin market for this > > and if there are too many streams going I'm afraid for the life of the > > project. One of the great things about Rivendell vs. other Open Licensed > > broadcast automation systems is that it is in current development and if > > I get hit by a bus the station can find support for it. > > > > It's one thing to have 1000 & 1 versions of *nix out there. There are > > millions of users of that software and it can stand some diversity. I > > don't think Rivendell is in the same position. > > > > Chat with Fred and see if the work you're thinking about doing could be > > merged back into BA at some point. If not, I'd tread lightly. > > > > Love the energy though! > > > > Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA > > > > On 8/30/12 12:47 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > >> So one of the questions I had, was would it make sense to > >> reconstruct/rewrite all of the UI components in Java? We could > >> construct a JNI interface into the binary libraries needed so that all > >> the same tools could exist, but then we'd have a much more portable UI > >> base it would seem to me. > >> > >> In top of that, I have lots of experience with using various > >> communications technologies between Java virtual machines that would > >> allow things to remain in separate processes where needed. > >> > >> Do that, would make it very easy to run rivendell on OS-X it would seem > >> to me. > >> > >> Thoughts? It's not a small amount of work, but with some buying, I'd be > >> very willing to work on a proof of concept. > >> > >> In doing this, the resources, in terms of memory for Rivendell would > >> increase some, but I don't think, that overall, we'd tremendously > >> increase the class of machine required to get a great play out > >> experience. > >> > >> Gregg > >> > >> On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I spent some time a year ago trying to make Rivendell play on OS X but > >>> aside from some driver issues it seemed like QT mis-matches were the > >>> major malfunction. Fred G says a QT up-rev is on the list of things to > >>> do. > >>> > >>> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPad > >>> > >>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:33 AM, WBHM Web Operations <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> I'm trying to compile a checkout from: > >>>> > >>>> cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout > >>>> rivendell > >>>> > >>>> On OSX lion, loosely following these instrctions: > >>>> > >>>> http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Install_Rivendell_on_OSX > >>>> > >>>> I say loosely, because these are obviously outdated. > >>>> > >>>> First thing I noticed was that configure told me "Qt4 not found, > >>>> unable to continue", so using MacPorts, I removed qt3 and installed > >>>> qt4-mac-devel. > >>>> > >>>> Still no love. I'm looking for the qt4 libs and headers to no avail. > >>>> > >>>> Does anyone have some Rivendell OSX knowledge to share. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Larry _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
