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On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:56 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 01:19:36PM -0400, David Robillard wrote:

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> > However, doing it for pay is professionally dishonest.  When you are

> > paid to report on something as an expert, you are supposed to set a

> > higher bar for yourself than mailing list trolls.  While the buffer size

> > analysis is fine (as expected, since this is something the author

> > *actually* knows something about), the conclusions drawn about the API

> > itself are simply wrong and serve only to illustrate a fundamental lack

> > of understanding about the most basic principles of the thing,

>

> The buffer size issue is the only one mentioned in the excerpt

> from my report that I quoted. Everything else, good or bad, about

> LV2 that I may have written or not written is just the product of

> your imagination. Which I can assure yout gets its mostly wrong -

> my overall conclusion was not negative at all.

Forgive me if I can only extrapolate from what I have seen: a constant

stream of FUD and endless criticism.
I am at least glad - if surprised - to hear there was anything else in

there.
> Judging from the (quite limited) feedback I got on my report,

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> what you present as an inevitable quality of the whole LV2

> project - things are 'designed' iteratively and as the result

> of a lot of social interaction - is what scared off my customer.

That's what FUD is meant to do.  It worked.
> This is not what you need if you want to launch a product in a

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> determined time and commit yourself to support it. An idealist

> may do that, a company wanting to make a profit and survive for

> some time won't.

What you need is an API that actually does what you need.  Period.
You argue as if it would be better if it was *guaranteed* that it can

*not* do what the product needs.
You're comparing *real* technology with hypothetical perfect *fantasies*

that do not exist - could not ever exist - and claim that the *real*

thing is the victim of blind idealism.
Well, what can I say?  Out here in actual reality it's pretty clear

what's pragmatic and what's blind idealism.
/me pushes a key on his keyboard
I love the sound of code in the morning.  Sounds like victory.
-dr
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