28 May
2012
28 May
'12
12:33 a.m.
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:56 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 01:19:36PM -0400, David
Robillard wrote:
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.
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. Judging from the (quite limited) feedback I got on my
report,
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
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