Re: [Traverso-devel] Demo Projects

[Ingmar Vanhassel]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:16:59PM -0500, plutek-infinity wrote:
> 
> >From: Remon Sijrier <address@hidden>
> 
> >It should be relatively easy to add a menu to Traverso which shows available 
> >demo Project which can be downloaded by Traverso itself (Qt makes this very 
> >easy)
> >
> >If you guys think this isn't a good idea, or have suggestions, please let me 
> >know.

Having demo projects available is definitely a good idea.

> i think there *needs* to be an option to disable this, or to compile without 
> download support, for two reasons:
> 
> 1. i would consider it "bloat" to be adding *any* network functionality to 
> DAW software -- any potential for performance penalties or security risks due 
> to something like this would be most unwelcome by those of us who maintain 
> lean, DAW-specific machines.

Ditto, I'm not convinced that you want to have code for downloading
those in Traverso. Maybe it's nicer to have an extra tarball
traverso-$version-demo-projects.tar.gz that's unpacked over the sources
tarball. Then 'cmake -DWANT_DEMOS=TRUE' could install them?

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