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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luis jure" 
To: "csound list" 
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:02 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Universal qutecsound ?


>
> on 2010-06-09 at 14:00 Peiman Khosravi wrote:
>
>>I don't know what Stefano would think about this, but I  think in
>>addition to qutecsound (which I love) the installer could also include
>>WinXound (also a great editor)?
>
> well, leaving aside the previous "kind request" (which one could find 
> either
> amusing or disgusting, depending on the mood of the moment), i must say 
> that i
> think that bloating the csound installer with editors and front-ends is a 
> Very
> Bad Idea. i agree that winxound is a great editor and i recommend it to my
> students, since virtually all of them use windows. but i don't use it and 
> i
> wouldn't be able to use it even if i wanted to, since it doesn't run on 
> linux,
> as far as i know. qutecsound is cross-platform, but i don't use it because 
> it
> doesn't suit my way of working. why do i have to download it and install 
> it
> with every csound release?
>
> two reasons why i think that the csound installer should NOT include any
> external editor are:
>
> 1. they are not part of csound, you may use them or not depending on how 
> you
> organize your work flow. forcing csound users to download and install
> additional software seems to me arbitrary, we might as well include emacs, 
> vim
> and audacity;
>
> 2. they are they are different applications by different developers with
> completely different and independent release moments. suppose i use 
> winxsound
> and qutecsound so i download them and install them. then for every new
> release of csound i have to download and install them again and again and 
> again.
> and then there's a new release of winxsound/qutecsound, do i have to wait 
> to
> the next release of csound to have it? or i just download it as soon as it 
> is
> available? in that case, do i have to download it yet again with the 
> following
> csound release? i just can't get myself to find this idea very clever...
>
> honestly, i don't see the point bloating the installer with software that 
> is
> freely and easily available elsewhere.
>
> but those are just my two (very devalued) uruguayan pesos...
>
>
>
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