29 Jul
2011
29 Jul
'11
8:21 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:00 PM, David Robillard <d(a)drobilla.net> wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think the site should be reworked to be as
friendly as possible, to make finding appropriate implementations as
easy as possible, and all that, but declaring an "official SDK" or
whatever just strikes me as silly. You're basically asking if I think
modularity is bad. No, I very emphatically do not think that at all. ;)
I /personally/ agree that an "official SDK" is silly... be it LV2 or
Android or Qt or MeeGo or whatever. I'm a developer... why would I
want to use some mickey-mouse SDK? Give me the headers... and a
chroot... and emacs... and a beer!
However, these mickey-mouse SDK's /do/ foster adaptation of the
technology. There's a whole generation of ADHD Devs who are looking
for some kind of gooey instant gratification. "Oooo, an Eclipse
plug-in! Shiny!"
...and there's the fact that LV2 really /is/
just-a-little-too-abstract for your average dev.
So, while the idea of an LV2 SDK disgusts me (personally)... Olivier
is right that it would accelerate developer acceptance.
-gabriel