[gephex-devel] Similar project

[Jean-Sébastien Senécal]

Hi,

    I don't know if this is the right list to send this, please feel 
free to tell me if not.

    We're currently developping an Open source software for online 
video/audio effects, available here: http://orangeseeds.net/drone/ 
(sorry, it's not very well maintained for now). We didn't know about 
GePhex until recently and it seems that most of the things we'd like to 
see in our software are currently part of GePhex, namely:
- easy-to-use and intuitive interface
- dataflow view (graphical meta-language)
- real-time effects

    We also really like the fact that it's object-oriented and that is 
makes use of STL, because we think it's time for Open source software to 
move on to advanced object-oriented programming now that the compilers 
are (mostly) stable. Right now, we're looking for a way to make our 
software better, but I've started to think, by looking at your software, 
that a cooperation with you would be a very good thing for our project 
(and yours, ultimately). I don't know yet what is the best formula, but 
here are the options that I would consider:
1) have a unifying framework for filters (won't be difficult since we 
share the same dataflow-oriented, hard-typed philosophy)
2) we continue developping our software but exchange code with you
3) we develop our own branch of GePhex
4) we drop our project and start contributing ideas and code to yours

    I'm waiting for your comments and inputs over this.

    Cheers,

    Jean-Sébastien Senécal