On Friday 13 August 2004 09:55 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > 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. > Okay, that's sensible. > 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). > Yes. IMO we're clearly in "beta" territory (no pun) > erik
