Re: release? plus other stuff

[David O'Toole]

> is the code now capable of loading and exercising machines? if so, i'd really
> like to se another interim release without the unfinished bits, just something
> to enable us to write machines for the final API and test/hear them... so that
> once the system is finished there will also be some machines for it. 

I would like to put out something ASAP along these lines. Actually the 
code has been capable of "loading and exercising machines" for some time 
now,.... this summer I did a demo of two simultaneously playing square 
wave melodies run thru a simple delay module, all connected using the 
system's API. There just isn't a GUI yet, and parts of the sequencer 
have yet to be coded. (This is a tracker, so I doubt the sequencer is 
going to be much work :-)

As I remember, the 0.5 release was erased from GNU's alpha server when 
they moved it, sometime this fall. And since then I have had a lot of 
trouble getting back into my account, I will email someone again to see 
if I can get this moving.... yet another chapter in my endless struggle 
with the world's most fussy/fragile security software "Kerberos".  :-) 
In the meantime I've attached the old 0.5 tarball to this message.

> i'm also thinking about websites which would collect machines and now i
> want to write a tool which would load a plugin and spit out the machine
> info in some text form

Take a peek into machine.c... it fills in the "machine_type" structure 
according to data retrieved from loading the plugin's shared object 
(*.so). Sounds like it could be a fun idea for auto cataloguing.

> could know the parameters needed for any machine. hey, you could compose in
> a browser... :)

Heh :-). Who knows, anyone here know XUL?

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