Re: midi functions

[Olaf Till]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 08:50:12PM -0500, John Donoghue wrote:
> On 11/30/19 4:11 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 12:37:18PM -0500, John Donoghue wrote:
> > > On 11/29/19 11:50 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> > > > Deatr John,
> > > > 
> > > > I thought I had enough permission, but it seems I do not.
> > > > 
> > > > I opened a ticket so admins can see it
> > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/394/
> > > > 
> > > > I am CC'ing them as well.
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 5:21 PM Juan Pablo Carbajal
> > > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > forgot one item,
> > > > > 
> > > > > mercurial or git?
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 4:22 PM John Donoghue
> > > > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > > On 11/29/19 8:17 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> > > > > > > > Ive added some more updates to the patch ticket, can someone 
> > > > > > > > create a hg
> > > > > > > > repo on octave-forge for it?
> > > > > > > What name do you want for the package?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Do you want it to be a community or an external package?
> > > > > > midi or midi-toolkit
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > community
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > thanks for trying! Ill follow up on the ticket
> > I was in a probably similar situation with 'database', which I'd have
> > planned to release as 'postgresql'. It was suggested to make a
> > 'database' package of it, even if it currently only contains code for
> > postgresql. Contributing code for further database systems later was
> > allowed for (but as yet no code contributions for further SQL-systems
> > appeared).
> > 
> > With a similar argumentation, it could be suggested that you maintain
> > the (currently unmaintained) 'audio' package, remove all the
> > (unmaintained) code, add your MIDI code and note somewhere that the
> > package currently only contains MIDI code and maybe that contributions
> > of other code are welcome and could be based on unmaintained code in
> > older repository versions. (This would be more like in Matlab, which
> > has an 'Audio' toolbox containing MIDI code.)
> > 
> > OTOH, this could make the MIDI code more difficult to maintain.
> > 
> > I think we first should give some thought to this principal decision
> > and hope for some input. The final decision, I think, should be left
> > to you.
> > 
> > Olaf
> > 
> As a followup, I'll just use the old audio package

Ok, Olaf

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