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On 12/30/2009 05:52 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

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> On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

>

>> On 12/30/2009 12:39 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

>>

>>> On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Paul Davis wrote:

>>>

>>>> i notice that SDLmm has not had a commit in nearly a year, and appears

>>>> to have been named under a similar belief as your own.

>>>>

>>> Is it about belief? There is something about that in the Universal

>>> Declaration of Human Rights. Article 18: "Everyone has the right to

>>> freedom of thought, conscience and religion". I would also add the GUI

>>> toolkit and frameworks.

>>>

>>> Maybe you know the text of a Law, or a sacred text source of the absolute

>>> truth, where it is stated that a library name ending in "mm" must not be

>>> used by those not belonging to the congregation of true believers, under

>>> pain of heresy ?

>>>

>> I think it is more about the numbers game. Basically there is a pattern

>> that has been established by developers who have chosen to end their

>> apps names with mm. Your app falls outside of the pattern so it may be

>> confusing for people who come across it to learn that it is not adhering

>> to the pattern.

>>

> You are right, of course it is about numbers. There is a majority of people

> imposing their point of view over a single one, that is alone and looks easy

> to beat.

>

> I can understand the frustration of a confused victim that reads "aseqmm" and

> thinks it is something different of what it really is, then he reads the

> description that says "This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library

> sequencer interface, using Qt4 objects, idioms and style". This poor victim

> must be protected, even if that means stoning me preventively.

>    

Probably a more likely scenario is that a user who is knowledgable in

such things will read the description and think "Hmmm, that's a strange

name for such a library, I wonder what other interesting design choices

have been made".
Btw, you are free to perceive this as constructive feedback or simply

criticism. I have no intent on the latter though.
Patrick Shirkey

Boost Hardware Ltd
> So, I am thinking about changing the name of the library for "Lapidation" in

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> the next release. It will be interesting to write a little chapter for the

> documentation, explaining the name's history and why it had to be changed.

> What do you think?

>

>

>> An analogy could be a sushi restaurant called "Bobs meat extravaganza".

>> Technically they do serve some meat in the restaurant but it's probably

>> going to be confusing for those who like to consume copious amounts of

>> beef.

>>

> I don't imagine a crowd of angry people complaining the restaurant's owner to

> force him to change the name. If you don't like the meal or the name, you

> should avoid dinning there. That's all.

>

> I feel part of the community of Linux Audio Developers. I know that there is a

> majority using certain toolkits and technologies, they are different to mine.

> I'm alone or among a little minority. And so what? Are we developers or

> sheep?

>

> Regards,

> Pedro

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