API workshop at GMEA March 2015

With :

• Trond,
• Clément,
• Théo

The main objective of the 3 days is to make a draft for a C++ Jamoma API :

• What is Jamoma made for ?
• What services Jamoma provides ?
• How to ease the use of Jamoma in a C++ code (without learning the Jamoma language) ?
• Regarding this last point, I'd like to suggest "Effective Modern C++" by Scott Meyers as mandatory reading. This video is also good, particularly thinking about RAII. It will be difficult to have a conversation without some common basis on which to base any discussions. [tap]

Topics

Monday

• Done: Step thru the debugger for j.parameter to understand the wrapper mechanism
• Done: Look at the type method for TTData
• Done: j.parameter dataspace and ramp lib: Now works for integer and decimal types, and recent changes to dev branch on Core have been merged into this branch.
• Quick overview of the last development made in OSSIA to get Trond up to speed (i-score 0.3, j.score, i-score_player, API Editor and Network).
• About Network API : discussing attributes, all the discussion about the API is reported here

Tuesday

• DONE: Take a look at the Terminal-based i-score_player.
• Continue looking into ideas for API Editor and Network
• DONE: Make plans for how to break everything
• j.parameter dataspace and ramp lib: Make it work with type array as well.
• Start planning presentation for Thursday.

Wednesday

• it could be nice to make a Jamoma Release to announce the new Score module and j.score external. Make a windows release seems also possible (and some people from Bilbao could test it)

Saturday

A BOD meeting with Mathieu, Pascal, Julien, Trond and Théo to discuss:

• Help patchers for the minimal Max distro
• Are we able to make any plans for updating the web site?
• What else is needed in order to make a release of 0.6?

Other topics :

• Integration test
• Prepare Thursday presentation