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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:25:40PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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> I don't think, that this is the reason. There are several other

> reasons, the most important one is: The announcement asking for help

> was just some days ago, and generally no new project starts in just a

> couple of days, especially not at that time of the year.

>

> Getting developers to join a project is one of the hardest things to

> do in the Free Software world and it takes a lot of time. Just think

> about Ardour: For a long time this was mainly the project of Paul

> alone, IIRC. He pushed things forward and over the *years* has found a

> good amount of co-developers.  And Ardour is of interest to many more

> people than a configuration tool for a piece of hardware, that not

> many people own or will buy, because - let's face it - it's expensive.

>

> I'm currently struggling with getting support for a strange kind of

> webcam into Pd, and as I'm currently the only one using such a beast,

> I'm on my own for now. That's the way it is, patience is a virtue,

> time is limited etc. etc. I don't blame anyone, and in my experience

> there will always come support for something sooner or later.

>

This explanation sounds more serious for me, but I'm not a C++ coder and

i couldn't surely manage this project myself for the beginning :(
Nevertheless, good look with your webcam :)
Philippe