[gmpi] Re: Requirements
- From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:34:25 -0500
>> ends up using platform specific code. any time a new platform shows up
>> that is of interest, it will require work (time, money) on the part of
>> developers to get their plugins working on the new platform, and which
>> is likely in many cases to simply not happen. this creates an
>> unnecessary (in my view) inertial preference for existing platforms.
>
>How many platforms is this likely to be? We have Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
>and other unix (I put Mac OS X in a seperate category here b/c it has a
>large extended API which people may reasonably want to use).
(agreed, but that means you should include macos 9 as well, because
many mac users are still using it)
look at what happened when BeOS came along. look at what's happened
with linux so far, or even osx so far. who knows what new platform
might emerge in the next 5 years? are you ready to port all your plugins
to it? if your plugins were written around a sensible cross-platform
API, chances are that you'd have them all available for a new platform
in a few days worth of work, perhaps less. result: no inertia when a
new platform shows up.
and yes, i am concerned about this. there is nobody, not one person,
who has ever been able to argue that linux is not a technically
superior platform to windows and mac os 9 (at least). and i've shown
many people that i can sell them a box that they can just turn on and
use without knowing anything about linux. but what's missing? "can you
get halion?" "can i run waves plugins?" "does ChannelStrip work?"
without the ease of moving to a new platform, the ports don't happen,
and without the ports, the new platform struggles, often very
hard. and yes, i know that missing plugins is not the only thing
stopping linux from totally dominating pro-audio :))
--p
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