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Rosegarden Developers Interviewed by O'Reilly
rayk_sland writes "Users of the Rosegarden Sequencer project will be gratified to see it featured in O'Reilly's Linux DevCenter web magazine. I am a devoted fan of this program, which allows the user to sequence music using classical music notation, and has many other sequencer features I haven't even properly fathomed (read the article.) The Rosegarden project has recently released a 'pre-1' beta. Almost time for those party streamers..."
It is the only reason I have QT/KDE libs on my PC. But there is something else very interesting in all this. Because the original Rosegarden developer started his programming in GTK-- and moved over to QT :)
I do hope someday there will be a GTK2 interface for this great program, it will minimize the compile time a lot.
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Some open source developers disagree with you.
Open source developers usually write software because they want to use it. If they don't want to use it with Windows, then why should they port it just to satisfy some whinging Windows users? Especially the "I couldn't code my way out of a soggy paper bag, but Doing This Would Make Open Source Succeed*!" sort.
* Succeed being defined as "do what I want it to do"
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It's not that simple.
I maintain a couple of and contribute to a few free software projects. I can build and test on a couple of architectures and a couple of operating systems on my own. I don't have Windows installed, and if it weren't for one machine a roommate uses only to run an accounting program, there wouldn't be an installation of Windows in my home. (That machine has no network connection.)
If I want to know that that software runs on Windows, I have to rely on other programmers who not only can and do run Windows but can and do build software there. I can understand why there seem to be so few of them -- the last time I tried, it was an awful experience -- but telling developers that they should write software that works on Windows is fairly useless.
If you want good free software that runs on Windows, go to this supposedly huge, untapped market, find people capable of developing, testing, and submitting bugs, and point them at those projects that wouldn't mind running on Windows if they had a little help.
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Program a graphical interface to MIDI gear.
Track automation layers.
MIDI plugins.
Even things as simple as switching programs don't work flawlessly.
If the Rosegarden developers are reading this, it would be worth their while to spend some serious time with Logic and Cubase and some moderately complex MIDI keyboards and rackmount units.
Start by copying the features from the oldest versions of these programs (I'm sure an Atari + Cubase can be had for very little money), and work up, feature-by-feature. I think some perspective is needed in the development process.