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AmigaOS is a closed source operating system that's better understood than most open source ones. If Ardour were closed source but understandable and easily exte
by bitwize 3y ago
AmigaOS is a closed source operating system that's better understood than most open source ones. If Ardour were closed source but understandable and easily extensible, everyone would be happy -- including the author who can make some money off his efforts finally. The Sublime Text model should be considered here.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoArdour is easily extensible: 1. 3rd party plugin APIs (VST2, VST3, AudioUnit, LV2) 2. Lua scripting interface, covering very large chunks of the internal API, already used by many users to do some very clever and/or useful things. 3. C++ source, generally well reviewed by most newcomers what is does not have, and which is how TFA originated, is a scripting system that lets you build new GUI components.
- drewcoo 3y agoSo it's a feature request. FOSS doesn't make feature requests go away. And you've already built a bunch of things for customers to do integrations and/or customizations. It just turned out that you did that so well that they expect even more. Honestly, you should take it as a complement, imho. Not a bad problem to have.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoIt's not a bad problem to have. It is, however, a problem to think about when one of your "competitors" major features that differentiates them from other similar software is a scripting system that can provide "just what users want".