OK, it seems like the consensus is clear to me. So far, most people want to
use/keep LADSPA2. I ran it through a condorcet program, just to make sure,
but it't not in doubt. FWIW, by my count the pure "acceptable" numbers
came out as:
17 ladspa2
7 xap
6 peep
5 apa
4 sax
4 plux
3 rap
2 peeper
2 eep
1 wasap
1 sap
1 pea
1 openplux
1 lapa
1 fap
1 clap
1 chap
And the condorcet pattern was:
9 ladspa2
1 ladspa2>apa>sax
1 ladspa2>plux
1 ladspa2>sap>xap>peep>peeper>sax>fap>eep>clap>chap>apa>rap>pea>wasap>rap
1 ladspa2>lapa>plux>xap
1 openplux>plux>ladspa2
1 peep
1 peeper>peep>apa
1 plux>apa>ladspa2
1 sax>eep>xap
1 xap>apa>ladspa2
1 xap>peep
1 xap>rap>peep
1 xap>sax>peep>ladspa2
Only 23% of those voters would find LADSPA2 unacceptable, next best is XAP
which 68% would find unacceptable.
I wasn't especially rigourous, so I may have missed, or misinterpreted
someones vote. Someone could poll the LAU list if they felt inclined.
I think that we should give the people who's names appear on the original
.h file a veto, as were doing some radical changes to the design - though
hopefully still in the spirit of the original. It doesn't look like we'd
ever reach consensus on any other name though.
*sigh* I guess I should invest in an anti-RSI keyboard.
- Steve
Discusson seems to have slowwed down a bit, so I went through the list
archive and pulled out all the names:
apa chap clap eep fap ladspa2 pea peep peeper rap sax wasap xap
----
I vetoed ape and meep as the name clashes are too close.
To see if theres early consensus lets run a condorcet vote on the options.
If everyone posts thier preference in order seperated by >, eg.
foo>bar>baz
means "I'd like foo, but if I cant have that I'l have bar, and if I cant
have that I'l have baz, everything else is unacceptable". Then we can run
it thorugh an online voting system.
- Steve
Hans Fugal wrote:
> That sounds great! Will these also be available for download afterwards?
>
yes, if all goes well. we will not have time to edit them, but if
someone volunteers, we can upload the raw dumps immediately after they
are done, in 30min chunks. any takers?
jörn
Several people have suggested that LADSPA is not a great name for what we
are calling LADSPA 2. Reasons for this include:
The L, it's not really linux specific, and though /we/ know that its the L
of LAD, its not obvious to people outside.
The S, it ain't really going to be simple. For someone like me, who is
neck deep in triples on a daily basis, 2.0 seems like the paragon of
simplicity, but I can imagine 2.9 being quite a beast.
LADSPA, (pron. ladspuh?) is a bit of a mouthful, and not exactly catchy.
2.0, it's not going to be obvious to all users that 2.0 and 1.0 are binary
incompatible. I'm not sure everyone thinks in major and minor revisions.
So, with some trepidation I suggest that we think about naming, with the
proviso that if we haven't reached consensus by May 10th we default to
LADSPA 2.0, and live with the pain.
----
My suggestion is that we ressurect the XAP name
(http://www.google.com/search?q=lad+xap)
It stood for Xap Audio Plugin IIRC.
Pros: it's short*, relatively unused** and pronouncable***
Cons: xap.{com,org,net} will have gone long ago (too short), theres a
small ammount of baggage.
- Steve
* I've typed LADSPA_ a lot
** There is a home automaption protocol, called xAP that takes
plugin modules. Though I think we started using the name around the
same time, they seem like nice people and we should OK it with them.
*** "zap"@en-gb
Blaze Monger wrote:
> I have SCONS installed and when i type scons, it gives me this:
>
> Checking for libsigc++-1.2...
> Package sigc++-1.2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sigc++-1.2.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'sigc++-1.2' found
>
> I've been trying to build this for hours and I can't find sigc++1.2.pc
> anywhere.
Slackware 10.2 doesn't come with sigc++. You will have to get the source,
compile and install it before attempting to compile anything that uses
it, such as cheesetracker. It's not hard though - sigc++ compiles and
installs cleanly under Slackware 10.2 (for me at least) using the normal
./configure
make
make install
process.
Regards
jonathan
Quoting Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> My suggestion is that we ressurect the XAP name
> (http://www.google.com/search?q=lad+xap)
> It stood for Xap Audio Plugin IIRC.
>
> Pros: it's short*, relatively unused** and pronouncable***
More pros: we would have a VST -alike logo already! (looking at
http://xap-plugins.org/artwork.html).
And it's not too VST -alike, as XAP doesn't share a single letter with VST.
> Cons: xap.{com,org,net} will have gone long ago (too short), theres a
> small ammount of baggage.
I think we would select a short name anyway. Most of them are gone already,
so we have the same problem whichever [a-z][a-z][a-z] we select :)
Sampo
I've written a first cut at an ontology/schema for the plugin RDF:
http://plugin.org.uk/ladspa2/ladspa-2.ttl
The term schema is a bit misleading, as it doesn't really enforce
anything, it really just gives you some hints about what to write. The
bulk of it is english text to explain the meaning of the bits that are no
longer in the .h
I tried to write it as clearly as possible, but the machine readable parts
might still be a bit cryptic and there could be errors. Shout if there's
any bits that don't make sense.
- Steve
hi *!
the linux audio conference 2006, which takes place at the zkm in
karlsruhe/germany from april 27 to april 30, will be streamed live for
your convenience, inspiration and enjoyment.
all presentations (which are listed on
http://lac.zkm.de/2006/program.shtml) are covered as ogg vorbis audio
streams in two bitrates (one for modem users and one for
slightly-more-broadband users) and ogg theora/vorbis a/v streams (for
broadband users only). to watch and/or listen, you can use a recent
version of mplayer, vlc or curl | theora123, if you prefer.
the stream urls are listed at
http://lac.zkm.de/2006/streaming.shtml. we will start test streams
tomorrow by 12:00 utc+2. as always, there will be chat channels to go
with the streams, where you can report problems, discuss the
presentations and also ask questions which will be relayed to the live
audience by the local chat operators here at zkm.
these channels are #lac2006 for general issues and chitchat, and
#lac2006-track1 and #lac2006-track2 for questions and remarks about the
current presentation, all on irc.freenode.net.
you will be able to download the presentation slides in advance to read
along as you listen and watch. the quality of the video streams will not
be sufficient to read the projections, but you should easily be able to
make out which slide is currently up.
on behalf of eric rzewnicki (who did most of the streaming work this
year) and the rest of the lac organizational team i wish you lots of fun
with the streams. kudos again to the icecast team, especially to karl
heyes, all the folks at xiph.org who brought us all those great free
multimedia codecs, and the crew here at zkm for their great support and
cooperation!
best,
jörn