On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 01:23 +0000, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not actually subscribed to any of muse's lists, so I just CC to Werner. > > For me situation with instruments definitions begins to bring > troubles. We have two decent MIDI sequencers, and each of them > supports only its own instruments definition format. > > For me having one uniform standard format would be best, especially if > definitions are kept in one system directory so that any application > could see it. This is what we are trying to achieve in our "Create" > project [1] with "Shared resources" specification [2]. > > Currently we are about to setup an SVN repository at Freedesktop.org > to store shared resources of different kinds. With a uniform file > format and a uniform system directory one could make a new definition, > commit it to one repository and make users of both applications happy. > I'm pretty sure that more free applications will needs some > instruments definition file format in the future (at least Ardour), so > why not have a standard? > > There is no need to make Rosegarden and MusE depend on a large package > with patterns and brushes that are not related to audio production. > Definitions can be packaged separately and have their own versioning. > > If you feel like are ready to discuss it, Create's ML is a fine place > for that. It's a _very_ low traffic list. > > [1] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/About > [2] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Shared_resources > > Alexandre
Yes, I look forward to this discussion. CREATE's main proponents are from graphics applications. However, the goal is for support of FLOSS creative applications. The shared standard is one part of our strategy. Great! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
