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Hi William, everyone...
Windows port? Yes, portability is good. But learn from the SciLab
experience.
1. Disproportionate effort to fix problems in the Windows domain, when
most of the open source creativity rests in other domains.
2. 80% complaints from Windows users of the form "It doesn't work and I
hate you": only 20% of this form from other communities (totally
opinionated and subjective statistics from my reading the lists, not at
all based on facts :) An ex-colleague from Leeds Uni who developed the
SciLab NURB toolbox (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) suffered greatly
in this way. Thing is, we didn't have SciLab on Windows platforms, so
we couldn't even reproduce the bugs!
Of course all the Windows users reading this will hate me now, but
since they are the adventurous sort (because they are on this list),
they won't be in the "standard" categories I allude to above.
We had unhappy experiences with animix too (http://animix.sf.net). We
even offered to supply turnkey solutions to people *in the project* on
machines at our expense. But they were just convinced it was going to
be rubbish: it "just wasn't Windows", and refused even to try it and
give feedback. The Animation industry (at least in the UK) is *so*
conservative compared with the musicians!
Of course, I'm really happy when software we use gets distributed
widely, but it ain't all roses. Just my $0.02. Hope I've not upset
everyone again :)
Nick/.
On 30 Jun 2005, at 12:04 pm, William wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
Guillaume Laurent wrote:
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 22:28, William wrote:
Yummy, that looks quite nice :-). Hopefully it should be available
by the
time we can reasonably consider a KDE4 port.
I notice that Qt4 has Visual Studio .NET integration. I might have a
look at that with a view to a Windows port down the line.
A big barrier to a Windows port of Rosegarden is the dependency on
ALSA.
There is also the issue of KDE not running natively on Windows,
although there is renewed interest in making that happen
following the GPL licensing of Qt4 on Windows.
I asked in February whether there was any interest in helping out on
around one-person-month of work in porting the audio and MIDI code to
use
PortMusic http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~music/portmusic/
the popular cross-platform music API, but nobody on rg-devel followed
up
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10772975
Having said that, it seems from the regular enquiries I get about
Rosegarden
during discussions of composition software that there are quite a few
potential users who would be interested in having a native Windows
port.
William
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