[Vm-dev] Sounds baaad sounds

[Igor Stasenko]

2011/2/2 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
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> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>> Can anyone, except Eliot reproduce such image from scratch by loading
>> related packages from publicly available places? (I know the answer,
>> but i want to hear yours).
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> I did create my own version starting from a 4.2 trunk image and I could build a VM from it. So the answer is yes. And if I can do it, then others can do it too.
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Can you give me instructions how to do that? Because i don't have one.


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>> It is a pain to extract this knowledge, but i doing it anyways.. So,
>> please be patient :)
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>> Clearly, we need such an artifact, which can continue living without
>> its original author(s) otherwise nobody will use it.
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> Almost everyone uses such VMs, so your statement is not true. It's safer to the community if the information is available to everyone, but in the current case I have the feeling that it's not about safety.
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Then about what?

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>> Because as i said, SoundPrims have to be maintained by VM developers
>> as long as it is an integral part of VM,
>> and as long as same VM shared among multiple forks.
>> How people using these prims in their forks, or if they are using them
>> at all is not a concern of VM developers.
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> So which is better?
> - duplicate the code in the VM and image
> - remove the code from the image and use only the primitives there
> - every image should depend on an external package
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There is no need to remove code. The only need is to split package to
separate responsibilities.


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> Levente
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.