On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:40 PM, James Harrison <ja...@talkunafraid.co.uk> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As Tim has already mentioned- why Windows? > > The amount of work required to port things like the core audio engine, > interprocess communications daemon and other services would be > nontrivial, and with Windows being such a huge step backwards from Linux > on nearly all important points from the perspective of radio stations, > where's the point? The only benefit of Windows is familiarity, and it > doesn't take long to get familiar with Linux. We transitioned most of > the desktop stuff without any training whatsoever and everyone picked it > up fast enough.
Well... a bit of a workaround but depending and the reasons why, it might be possible to put rdairplay on a box somewhere in a closet and vnc to it from a windows box in the air studio. > > But as mentioned already- it's open source software. If you can write C, > get porting! If you really had to have Windows for your frontends, you > would only need to port (I think) rdairplay, rdlogmanager, rdlogedit, > rdcatch and ripcd- you could remote the rest to a Linux hosted audio > engine/import system... in theory at least! Still going to take you a > long, long time. Perhaps better spent learning Linux? :) > > Cheers, > James Harrison > > > On 05/10/2011 02:25, Logan Corliss wrote: >> Hi, I am currently running Rivendell on ubuntu and its ok and all but I > also am really looking for a Radio Automation program that runs on > Windows. I was wondering if there was any plans to make this working on > Windows or if there is a code in progress that would allow Rivendell > with all of its features to run on Windows. This would be really great. >> >> -- >> Logan Corliss all the best, drew -- http://freemusicpush.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
