I've managed to compile rosegarden under our good friend cygwin on windows in
the past, it compiled pretty much out of the box. No sequencing of course, but
it all looked right. I also have access to a couple of macs here at work so if
no one's looking one lunchtime I could see how far the compilation gets on the
mac. The fact it compiles ok under cygwin leads me to imagine it might compile
under a mac ok too.
I harbour an entirely unproven, speculative and unjustified opinion that all
that needs to be done (LOL - toungue firmly in cheek there with the use of the
word *all*) is to write an implementation for the virtual midi/sequencer
interface in rg in terms of Jack, and you can have a fully portable codebase to
all platforms out of the box (with the help of cygwin on windows) with midi and
audio magically working, peace in the middle east, the world's hungry fed and
the moon on a f*****g stick to boot. I'm not advocating Jack as The Way forward
btw before the flamethrower is turned in my direction, it just occurs as a
possibility.
In fact, now I'm reminded of all this, I do have the embryonic beginnings of an
implementation of the midi stuff in rg in terms of jack somewhere on my
machine. Should time permit this week (another hearty LOL) I'll dust it off and
see where I got to with it. I fancy seeing how jack behaves on the mac anyways.
(don't) watch this space... :-p
>________________________________
> From: Richard Bown <richard.b...@ferventsoftware.com>
>To: David Tisdell <david.tisd...@gmail.com>
>Cc: "rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net"
><rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 16:49
>Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future
>
>
>Yes, but for the windows port so far audio isn't in scope. And if it was I
>probably wouldn't do it with JACK I have to say. Purely because I've got
>bored of fancy APIs for stuff and different models you're forced to adopt to
>use them, ALSA and JACK did it for me.
>
>
>Midi with Rtmidi and ? for audio. Maybe portaudio. Cross that bridge as and
>when. And if.
>
>
>Agree that website and docs and tutorials require a refresh. IMHO would be
>nice to have a clean, modern, fresh approach to website and shift the black
>/italics. But yes, we've been here before..
>
>
>
>
>
>On 8 May 2012, at 17:31, David Tisdell <david.tisd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>I agree on the "More bang for the buck" on a Windows port but JACK already
>runs on OS X as do some JACK aware apps. Percentage of the user base wise,
>the Mac has historically more people creating content (Don't know if that is
>true today) and it is fully POSIX compliant whereas Windows is not. It may be
>easier to get a full port over to the Mac. Not being a coder, I can't say for
>sure but the Ardour people ran into a significant road block on Windows
>because it wasn't fully POSIX compliant.
>>
>>
>>On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Brett McCoy <idragos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, David Tisdell <david.tisd...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps as a starting point we could "shake the tree" for developers on
>>>> Linux audio user lists, wikis, etc. since Linux is the platform of origin.
>>>> The core work should begin here and ports created as new features are
>>>> worked
>>>> out. As a member of the Rosegarden community, I would be happy to do that
>>>> but I would like some guidance from people like Michael who are working on
>>>> the project as to what should be said and who and how to contact to get
>>>> more
>>>> involved.
>>>
>>>I don't have the time to help with C++ development (and I definitely
>>>can't help with Windows porting), but I can certainly help with
>>>maintaining the website or Wiki pages and documentation. For instance,
>>>we need to better showcase some of the music being composed on
>>>Rosegarden (allow me to toot my horn here, but I recently completed a
>>>2 year study of Orchestration via Berklee and used Rosegarden for
>>>every single one of my projects). Maybe some video tutorials would
>>>help also (I'd definitely be up for making some of those). Pushing
>>>stuff out to Windows and OS X would help exposure also. Graphics apps
>>>like GIMP, MyPaint and Krita have gotten a lot of adoption from those
>>>worlds as alternatives to expensive commercial apps, and there is
>>>definitely room for something like Rosegarden there, too, especially
>>>since it offers notation, whereas apps like Reaper and Reason don't,
>>>and have MIDI & Audio capabilties way beyond what Finale or Sibelius
>>>provide.
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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>>>"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
>>>it would overturn the world."
>>> -- Jelaleddin Rumi
>>>
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