Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Interested in contributing

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:31 AM, D. Michael McIntyre
<ros...@gm...> wrote:
> Rosegarden doesn't get along well with low spec hardware.

That's generally always been true, but don't forget that "low spec
hardware" is not what it was.  Rosegarden didn't get along well with
low spec hardware, back when "high spec" meant a 1GHz P3 with 256 meg
of RAM and a dedicated soundcard.  But it got along OK with that "high
spec" machine, provided your low-latency kernel and all that crap were
in order and you didn't try doing any serious audio.  The difficulty,
as always, is in that proviso.  (The machine I targeted STG at
originally was a bit lower-spec than that, for what it's worth, and I
could get work done on that.)

> Anyway, to this new Chris, I'm afraid I have to say that it is totally
> pointless to do anything right now except work on the Qt4 port.  I killed
> 1.7.3 because if the port doesn't get finished, all of this is completely
> pointless, and there is only one objective that matters right now.

I agree that it's pointless to do new development in trunk, but bug
fixes there are still welcome.  There will definitely be a 1.7.3 at
some point -- if nobody else puts it together, I will.  Even if the
Qt4 port gets to the "compiling and running" stage in short order now,
it will still be easily some months before it's stable and well-tested
enough to replace 1.7.  And I still promise that any fixes in 1.7.3
will be ported across to Qt4 after that branch builds.


Chris