Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Separating the synth drivers from JSL (Was: Name for refactored branch)

[William Z. <wrz...@po...>]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Joe Emenaker <jo...@em...> wrote:

> Well, it seems a little silly to me that we would need to make a new
> release number any time someone makes a new driver.
>

Really?  It's seems silly to me to make the user rummage around either
SourceForge or a custom GUI for what amounts to a tiny download, and then
they need to do this repeatedly if they have several synths.  With an
integrated download, they get the latest core, and ALL the latest synths at
once.


> Also, I just looked at the disk usage for my latest checkout of trunk,
> and the "core" package takes about 1MB while "synthdrivers" takes almost
> 6MB. So, most of the space and compile-time is going into the
> synthdrivers, and most users only need one or two of those. Just seems
> like a lot of waste.
>

Well then it's time to upgrade your 486.  6MB is not worth worrying about,
even on an SSD.  User time is more precious than disk space.

 > But at this point, we have much bigger fish to
> > fry.
>
> Like? Do you mean bug-reports and feature-requests in the tracker, or do
> you have other stuff in mind?
>

I'll admit, the list is pretty short.
 * Release 0.21.
 * Sweep up outstanding bugs and patches.
 * Release 0.22.
 * Emenaker's Grand Refactoring.
 * Release 0.30.

I view all of those as more important than the plugin system.

-Bill Zwicky