On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Sean M. Pappalardo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Albert Santoni wrote: >> Neither of these sounds like a good idea to me because A is impossible >> and B is going to be an incredibly amount of work and impossible to >> maintain. > > Yeah, I hadn't thought through the implications of my request. If any of > them use SCons already, then it would be trivial to do for those, right? >
Right, but PortAudio is the only dependency that uses it. :) > But yeah, I guess I'm stuck manually building the deps and adding the > resulting 64-bit DLLs to our repo in a mixxx-win64lib folder or > something. Anyone else interested in seeing a Win64 build is welcome to > help at any point!! That sounds like a good idea, go for it. > > And while I agree that 64-bit code won't help much with regards to > overall performance, saying we have native 64-bit code will help with > brand image, especially since a large part of our user base is > non-technical and would simply take pride in the fact that Mixxx takes > "full advantage" of their hardware, unlike other software. And if we act > fast, we can make the claim that we're the only DJ software to do so! > Sure, it'll help the brand image, and you'll probably get some good Windows development experience out of it too. On the other hand, if it's brand image you're primarily concerned about, then I think the new library is going to have a much bigger impact. (Almost every serious DJ I've met in person who's tried Mixxx has blown it off because our library sucks for them in one way or another.) Anyways, that's just my opinion (and why I was working on the new library). On a more objective note, I'm a tiny bit concerned about our ability to produce win64 builds in the long-term, since they'll have a bus factor of 1 for the foreseeable future: If you disappear, we won't have anyone else to do win64 builds. We can only hope and pray that wider adoption of 64-bit Windows is inevitable, and that sooner or later we'll have more 64-bit Windows developers. (Is Windows 7 going to come in both 32- and 64-bit flavours? I wish they'd just make the switch to exclusively 64...) :) Thanks, Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
