Alexey V. Lukin wrote:
Windooze guys are quite satisfied with cracked CakeWalk and family.
Actually, no, Windows guys are quite satisfied with legitimately licensed Cakewalk and family, thank you very much. But for me, that wouldn't be the point of porting it.
IMHO porting RG to windows is wasting of time. Huge problem of Win* is unpredictable delays and big latency. Main advantage of Linux+ALSA+Jack is possibility of realtime sound processing. I use RG from cvs about year and it performs allmost well with sound tracks. LADPSA processing gives a lot of possibilities for real-time music performing with couple of real instruments and RG.
It's interesting (and probably ironic if you like that sort of thing) that this is the exact mirror of the problems we had back when we were first putting together the original Rosegarden sequencer in 1994/5. At that time we were being killed on latency issues in Unix environments, and while Windows multimedia was a bitch to program for in those days, you had the advantage that your low-level timer routines hung directly off the hardware clock interrupt. Not so any more, and the latencies have crept in on the Windows side, but to my experience it's nowhere near as bad as you claim (and it certainly doesn't seem to be any better for the non-real-time Linuxes I use).
Besides, the point for me would not be to port RG to windows because it would be useful. I'd do it because the portability challenge would be fun. Plus it might provide me a bit of closure, since my last Rosegarden porting effort went down with a hard drive crash about eight years ago, and I haven't done anything for the project since.
Still, it's all pretty much moot, since the KDE framework isn't there yet, and I don't have any spare time in any case. Oh well, maybe one day...
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