Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Project management: my brilliant idea of the century (so far)
From: Richard W.E. Furse (richard_AT_muse.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 13:31:16 EEST
I've been using makefiles as the heart of my compositions for the past six
years. It's a really useful way of working - compositions can be packed
down to a minimum with a "make clean," then returned to at a later date. I
have archives of many of my pieces in this form (although I lost a bundle
in the Greate Harddrive Crash of '96 [don't say a word]). Algorithmic
composition (e.g. C++ scripts to generate scores etc) falls into place
trivially. Also, errors in early stages of processing can be corrected
later on as the whole process required to reconstruct the piece can be
reproduced. It's a really useful way of composing although, in my
experience, less techie musicians find it rather unnecessary and
over-formal.
A visual version of make would be very cool as long as the power of make
isn't diminished too much.
-- Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Winkler [SMTP:slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 6:59 AM
To: Linux Audio Dev.
Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Project management: my brilliant idea of the
century (so far)
It's amazing how creative having a deadline makes me feel...
So I'm sitting here avoiding work at the last minute reading csound
mail, when somebody mentions using 'make' to manage large csound
projects. That's something I'd thought of before, since I use make
to manage my band's website....
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