Re: [sc-users] Re: string formatting notation

[samarugalucas@xxxxxxxxx]

2017-12-26 1:33 GMT-03:00 <brianlheim@xxxxxxxxx>:

It seems like a lot of your thoughts here stem from what has happened in the past on this project. While anecdotal evidence can be helpful in many situations, I can't help but feel that it's also produced a stereotype that I now have to fight against. For instance, although I wrote several messages ago:

I've already seen this years before, e.g. when Jakob said he can make a GUI system, and I think you're right. However Scott's fears (so to speak) are prudent. Musicians are the most conservative artist kind. They don't care about how to write a string and if you change the user experience they will panic (so to speak again). The user base may have spent years of hard work trying to figure out how to use and feel confortable with the language for their user cases.

Having said that (I take full responsibility), if you want to contribute with changes I would recommend not to start by touching the user level interface. That was a joke. I would recommend to show a whole proposal about changing everything you want, to think a bit more bigger without either compromise yourself to something you wouldn't like to do and to work in parallel as Tim did with Supernova (now we are crying because he's not here). You and the people around will realise what you have in mind after having a clear picture of the whole thing, you don't need approval or rejection now. This degree of conflict about an isolated feature has no sense, people has fear there is not roadmap and still there is none regarding some issues like sclang. Having people to test things and merge if acceptable with a roadmap would be an ideal way.

I don't know if that makes any sense but anyway.