I wonder how many users will use that feature. I work in a FM radio station, we create huge automation system. Liquidsoap was considered as being heart of one, and it performs now that function, but temporarily. We had made a decision to switch to our own solution, based propably on GStreamer, after a few disappointments.
Basically, I use liquidsoap for last +/- 3 years, and there were at least a few moments that officialy released package wasn't stable or suffered from regressions. To mention only one of them, not more that a few months ago, ALSA output just stopped working after upgrade. Radio systems are realtime, critical systems, they MUST WORK, and I think you had already forgot that truth. The next big design change, that you had mentioned in your mail, is just a next opportunity to make new bugs. And please tell me, who uses now MIDI in the TV or radio? I've already stopped relying on liquidsoap, but that is the final argument to switch. If you want to have it used in professional environments, concentrate at stability, good testing, integration with high-level interfaces to interoperate with rest of the system, and dynamic configuration reloading. Currently if I need to do anything dynamically I have to feed liquidsoap via e.g. annotate, using dozens of custom scripts that are hard to maintain, there's no modern high-level API. And using that I still cannot e.g. add dynamically new input.http for transmission from one time event. Needless to say that I cannot do fadeout after switching from input.http. Of course, I can use PulseAudio or JACK for mixing that cases but it gives me a next scripts to mantain. etc. etc. I know that it's more fun in designing such fancy things as content-type, but in my opinion it's far away from professionalism. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
