22 Jan
2008
22 Jan
'08
7:23 p.m.
On 12:49:52 pm 01/22/08 Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
t_w_(a)freenet.de wrote:
I fully support Lars and DR on this one.
The Nullsoft guy publicly disses the work of many LAD'ers which has gone
ahead despite several years of delays and even in the wake of a so called
collaborative closed community effort to establish a universal plugin
format which took away valuable resources and blatently ignored the
established methods of open development.
He didn't bother to ask one of the dev's if his concerns/questions could be
answered with a simple email and he implies that the spec for LV2 is not
well thought out.
Why should they even respond to his feedback?
It's only because other more respected LAD'ers have brought it up that they
felt the need.
Changing the URI to prevent patch breakage seems like a no brainer to me.
Possibly the most important thing that we can draw from this is that the
LV2 docs are not complete enough for a busy closed source developer to see
the viability of the format. Everything he mentioned was shot down in
flames so it's not a case of the format being well thought out as he
explicitly stated.
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Dave Phillips wrote:
Do I ?
Well, maybe it's because I have the good right to do so. :)
Look, I'm trying to remind people here that what they say here can
make or break involvement with Linux audio (which is in fact a much
larger world than the one represented here). As a point, let me ask:
How many new developers have joined the Ardour team in the past two
years ? How many projects represented here have found an adequate
supply of talent to cover all their development bases ? Can we really
afford to sour *anyone* on the possibilities of Linux audio ? Is it
really too much to ask that we remain civil even to those who seem to
represent the opposite side ?
So responding with sarcasm, "We'll do
it my way or not at all"
conditions, and a confrontive attitude qualifies as "the spirit
of collaboration" ? Geez, you guys are really winning me over.
It's the good right of Dave and Lars to not care or even outright
reject closed software. They could have said it more diplomatic
terms ... but now you make a drama of it.