Re: [Pythonmidi-devel] And there was much rejoicing!

[Lennart R. <re...@nu...>]

Jay Vaughan wrote:
> At 1:13 Uhr +0200 28.10.2004, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 
>> Welcome to this nice, clean spring-fresh (or autumn-fresh, rather) list.
> 
> the trees are orange here in the fat RE, bit strange to me really. not 
> used to it.

Looks nice though!

>> So, next step should be having a unix implementation of similarily
>> basic level, and then a unification of these APIs. Also the
>> low-level API needs to be extended with SysEx support. At the moment
>> only short messages can be sent. I'm not sure ALSA distinguishes
>> between them.
> 
> You're pretty sure about ALSA for MIDI?

I know ALSA does MIDI, yes. But other than that i'm not sure I 
understand then question.

> Me, personally, I'd be happy to see midishare support added to python, 
> not just ALSA.  So any work on making pythonmidi less crufty in the ALSA 
> usage is happy to me!  :)

> there already is midishare support in python, just not that much python 
> midi applications being written .. seems like the right language for the 
> job to me though.

MidiShare is a big library. Nothing wrong with that, but as you mention 
there are already python wrappers for it. It is aimed for writing 
sequencers and stuff like that, which is cool, but it seems to me that 
this is overkill for most applications.

However, I just noticed that since two weeks ago, Midishare is also on 
source forge, which is great!