> Subject: Re: [LAD] [ANN] aseqmm 0.2.0 released
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> Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 8:34 PM
>
> On 12/30/2009 05:52 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > 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
> > 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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