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From: Bernard B. <ber...@gm...> - 2021-04-25 08:46:48
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Dear Anthony, It is a great pleasure to receive news from you! I had been reassured by Liz that your silence is related to good news. :-) We have plenty of time, no deadlines. Today I am building a Ubuntu startup disk for the Macbook. The installer doesn't see the partition formated as MS-DOS, so I am trying different volumes, different methods and different versions… I took advantage of being the sole contributor to development of the console: it was necessary to revise intricate algorithms in depth and get a stable application, which very complex items (imported fromMusicXML) allowed to test. Not yet being familiar with multiple contributions to the GitHub repertory, I felt safe to focus on these aspects. Needless to say, none of the real-time MIDI code has been modified! Once the possibility of building a standalone application is confirmed I will return to Csound issues: implementing a UDP driver to interact with the Csound console in real time, and looking for more orchestra files in links sent by Jean Piché. Real-time Csound interaction might even make it possible to use their MIDI input. Probably I will proceed further, laying the ground for Open Sound Control (OSC) as it would give access to PYO (http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/) and various recent sound software. Distributing a standalone version in the current state may bring beta-users and hopefully contributers to the development! All the best Bernard Anthony Kozar wrote on 22/04/2021 19:16: > PHP Desktop sounds promising. Definitely no reason that I can see to pay for an expensive license of a proprietary product that as you say will not likely have a long life. Without the source code for such a product, we would be completely out of luck when it dies. > > Sorry that I have been so quiet this year. I have embarked on a new adventure here at home that is currently consuming all of my time. I regret that we did not finish BP 3.0.0 before now but maybe in a couple of months I will be able to find a little time to work on it now and then. I think we should release version 3.0.0 sometime this year even if it is not really "finished". > > Thanks for keeping the project going a Bernard! :-) > > Anthony > > On Apr 22, 2021 11:29 AM, Bernard Bel <ber...@gm...> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I spent a long time looking for a proper platform to build a standalone >> desktop version of BP3 based on the PHP/HTML/Javascript files of its >> interface. >> >> I wasted energy and time trying LIANJA. First I needed to buy an >> external SSD drive and install a recent MacOS system. This took a while >> because of "firmware errors" and unavailable installations. Then LIANJA >> itself — in its 30-day trial — was an obsolete and unstable version. >> Gradually I found its limitations and real work environment: it does not >> convert a set of PHP files, it is merely an application builder using >> PHP (and other languages) for scripting its web-like content. Well, the >> kind of package we were already using in the late 1980s to build >> projects that would collapse forever as soon as the company stopped >> selling and upgrading their magical product… It made me angry to waste >> so much time because their "technical service" never came up with >> constructive suggestions, only repeating the ready-made commercial >> injonction to buy and install "version 6" developed for MacOS Big Sur >> which my MacBook will never run. UTF-8 wasn't fully supported and even >> crashed the application… And I was ready to pay 1000 USD per year for >> LIANJA! >> >> Finally I returned to the collection of packages and listed the >> requirements of the compilation platform: >> https://bolprocessor.org/standalone-application/ >> >> The only evident match seemed to be "PHP Desktop" >> (https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop) which is in full swing of >> development in its Linux version. And free of charge! I contacted >> Czarek, the designer, who immediately confirmed that all listed >> requirements would be met. >> >> I installed Ubuntu on an external disk and I am going to try "PHP >> Desktop" as soon as possible. :-) >> >> In case it works I will certainly send monthly contriibutions to support >> Czarek's creation of a MacOS version. >> >> Bernard Bel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bolprocessor-devel mailing list >> bol...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bolprocessor-devel > _______________________________________________ > bolprocessor-devel mailing list > bol...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bolprocessor-devel |
