[Protux-devel] Fwd: Re: Article about Protux for O'Reilly Network (www.oreilly.com)

[Luciano Domenico]

hi guys.. I received this this morning, I plan to answer it today yet, but if 
you guys want to answer some of the questions, please send me ASAP, I will be 
adding the names for each answer I receive. I will create answers for all, 
and when I get your answers , I will somekind of merging them. I will be 
answering "as-a-team", so you dont have free time, dont bother about 
this :-).


regards


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Subject: Re: Article about Protux for O'Reilly Network (www.oreilly.com)
Date: Saturday 02 October 2004 10:30 pm
From: Howard Wen <address@hidden>
To: Luciano Giordana <address@hidden>

Luciano,

Go into as much technical detail as you want, because O'Reilly Network
is written for fellow developers.

Please forward these questions to other members of your team who you
feel could provide their own insight into your project. Everybody should
send their answers separately to me. Or, if you'd like to send them all
together at once as a team, be sure everybody's answers are separate so
we know who's talking. Overall, we like to have answers from different
peoples' perspectives.

Take care, and I look forward to your answers.

1) Simple information about you is needed to include into the article:
Your age, job (or student?), where you live (city, province/state,
country), and what your main contributions to Protux are.

2) What is the current status of Protux? (For example, its feature-set,
or the progress of its development.)

3) What is the history of Protux? How did it begin?

4) Was Protux inspired by any other program?

5) There are a lot of music production applications that have been
developed specifically for Linux. What are your thoughts about this? Why
do you think there has been such active development in music
applications for Linux?

6) So how would you differentiate Protux from other Linux music
applications that are similar to it?

7) What programming language(s) was used to write Protux? Any reason why
this was chosen?

8) Does Protux use code or libraries which you/the Protux team did not
originally develop? Why were these chosen?

9) Was any technology specifically created for Protux?

10) What are the technical limitations of Protux, thus far?

11) What have been the biggest technical challenges you have faced in
developing Protux?

12) Perhaps related to Question #11, what are the inherent issues one
should keep in mind when developing code that deals with sound under Linux?

13) What features do you plan to add to the next immediate version(s) of
Protux?

14) What would you like others to pay notice to the most about Protux?

15) If somebody wants to contribute to your project (and you're open to
this), what skills from them could you use now?

16) What advice do you have for those who are interested in developing
applications that address the creation of music/the manipulating of
sound, regardless of platform?

17) If there's anything else you'd like to comment on that you think I
missed :-), feel free to add it here.

--Howard

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