Re: [Audacity-devel] Muse group is looking for a C++ developer for Audacity development

[Paul L. <pau...@gm...>]

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On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 10:45 AM Dmitry Vedenko <ve...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Joost,
>
> my name is Dmitry, and I'm the developer from the Muse Group, working full
> time on Audacity.
>
> Re-platforming to Qt or any other toolkit is an idea for the long term.
> The fact that wxWidgets relies on the system libraries, such as GTK or
> Carbon is quite an issue for developing a consistent user experience across
> all the platforms supported.
>
> We will be absolutely open about our roadmap and we will take all the
> feedback from the community into account.
>
> There is an ongoing discussion about the next release and the future
> roadmap on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/z2emNJh9
>
> Best,
> Dmitry
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM Joost Andrae <Joo...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I still dont't have a real opinion about the buyout of the Audacity
>> brand to the Muse Group. It's interesting to see that the Muse Group is
>> hiring a developer for Audacity development:
>>
>> https://mu.se/c-development-lead
>>
>> Interesting to read within this employment ad is:
>>
>> Familiarity with QT/QML
>>
>> I know the C++ class lib used currently might look somehow old fashioned
>> but it is working cross platform and I could live with it as a user. QT
>> could be a possible option (cross platform, license LGPL/MIT).
>> But a change of such a framework should be discussed with the Audacity
>> developer community. That's my opinion. And there are other cross
>> platform GPLv2 compatible C++ class libs available.
>>
>>
>> Just my 2 cents...
>>
>> Kind regards, Joost
>>
>>
>>
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