John Check wrote: > On Friday 13 August 2004 06:33 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>John Check wrote: >> >>>On Thursday 12 August 2004 03:34 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: >>> >>>>John Check wrote: >>>>... >>>> >>>> >>>>>One act gigging with this stuff is worth a dozen coders when it comes to >>>>>legitimizing the platform. There's so much potential with what's here >>>>>today that it blows my mind, but if it's "by geeks, for geeks" it really >>>>>limits were >>>> >>>> not that long ago it wasn't even that. The sound/audio/music software >>>>in linux is improving rapidly. obviously, you get the by geeks for geeks >>>>stuff first because it cannot be any other way - it takes time to make >>>>the program stable enough to be usable by general public. >>> >>>Yup. There's a definite progression. I'm not unfamiliar with development >>>cycles, as far as does it _have_ to be that way, it's a debatable point. >> >> not really, you will always have nothing, then something incomplete >>sort of usable and only after that there's something usable (if you're >>lucky:-) > > The operative word is _always_. How long is such a thing tolerable? oh, what I meant was: in each case, not always. In a sense that each project starts from nothing, goes through sort of something usable and hopefully gets to a stage when it is usable by (acceptable to) end-user. and it seems like linux audio is getting there, i.e. it is not stagnating (that was my main point). And I agree that it is at the point where ease of use and documentation starts to be really important (which I think is your main point). erik
