Learning curve

[Mike B]

David et als,

Thank you very much for posting this interesting open source project.
I would like to learn more, but two issues are stopping me. Mostly,
the learning curve seems too steep. Also I am hesitant to add new
third party frameworks, etc. and prefer to only add open source code
to my system that I can read first before building and running. I'm
sure that you did the research before choosing the frameworks, but I
don't have enough time to commit to something like that until I'm sure
I want to spend more time on a project. That being said, do you have
any early versions of the code that are stripped down to the central
functionality? I'm not too familiar with source code repositories;
perhaps all I need is the proper command syntax to get an earlier
version. Also, did you write any tutorials on this code while it was
still a fledgling project? That would be very helpful too. I find
that I have trouble learning when there is too much information at
once. Later, after I have the basics, I am good at synthesizing the
pieces.

Thank you very much for your time. I know I am asking a lot here.

Cheers,

Mikey Bee

P.S. I have an open source project too: http://code.google.com/p/stanzareader/

If you have any interest and questions, I would be happy to answer
them:-)

[David Phillip Oster]

Mea Culpa : When I set up the Vidnik project, I had Vidnik pull from
the top of tree of Sparkle and the Objective-C GData library. I should
have set to up to pull from an explicit revision of those two. Since I
posted Vidnik, those two have drifted.

I'll need to revise Vidnik, and check in new source that will build in
today's environment. I'll do it. But I can't do it today.

Vidnik is a very simple program, and a very early one. It contains
only the core functionality. Vidnik is just a way of grabbing video
sequences using the operating system support, and posting them to You
Tube. (Tasks that you can do anyway using the YouTube web uploader via
its Flash interface to your camera, or by Snow Leopard's Quicktime
Player.)

I find Vidnik to be a convenient user interface, I don't care for
Flash, and I wrote Vidnik before Snow Leopard came out, and Vidnik
supports PowerPC Macs, and Macs running Tiger and up.

I don't have any specific tutorials, but if you ask questions, we can
evolve those questions and answers into a tutorial.

-- David Phillip Oster

[David Phillip Oster]

Since I last posted, I've modified a personal copy of the Vidnik
source code to get it building with the top of tree OCMock, Objective-
C GData library, and Sparkle. I've got more testing to do, and I'll
need to request some minor changes to #if guards in the GData library,
but I expect to have the revised code checked-in in about a day or two.

[David Phillip Oster]

I've checked in some initial updates, that will help you at least
build the 10.4 Debug version.