Ralf Mardorf schrieb: > Sorry, I need to get a sniff and I need to blubber out. Ignore my email.
Hi Ralf :) sorry couldn't resist *not* to ignore your mail ;-) > > Did anybody follow "minimal LV2" on LAD? > Fuck, there are real issues, but gifted coders are talking about formalities. You should be aware that 80% of a developers "real" work is to observe formalities up to the tiniest detail. Just having good will and a robust common sense sadly enough doesn't make a single computer move or work. There is no "real stuff" beyond formalities, coding is all about formalities. But people, even a lot of developers, tend to forget that fact. Honestly, I can't see what is so annoying with the discussion you quote. I've seen real developers flame-wars, but this here is just an ordinary exchange. Someone not so familiar with a plugin interface asks some questions and gets an answer. Something else rants a bit and questions why parts of that interface are so seemingly complicated (which might be a valid observation at first sight). I think, Paul Davies gave a very insightful general answer to that kind of doubts, thus allow me to quote from it below... Cheers Hermann V. ========================================== From: Paul Davis <p...@email-addr-hidden> Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 00:08:55 EEST > i think that the problem here is not an unusual one. there is a disconnect > between people who have thought a little bit about something, and people who > have thought a lot about the same thing. this doesn't mean that the latter > group is right and the former group is wrong. but look, issues of how to add > metadata to online/software entities have been a focus of various parts of > academia and industrial R&D-ish types for many, many years. the design of > LV2's metadata reflects some part of the general conclusions that this sort > of work (nowadays "the semantic web") have come up with. > if you want to argue that this design is wrong in general, i think you have > an uphill battle (although you will find allies in parts of the semantic web > world). if you want to argue that its overblown in this particular case, then > i think its fairly important to show why the considerations that lead to > this RDF/turtle-ish kind of thing don't apply to the case of describing > plugins. > you know, as a beginner to quite a lot of things, i found them confusing. as > i got more experienced with them, in many (most?) cases i ended up > understanding why the design was the way it was. confusing-for-beginners is > not really a particularly compelling argument against something that really > isn't supposed to be the focus of a beginner's experience anyway. but people > being people, they find the one or two things that seem confusing and then > zoom in on that, ignoring its real significance and purpose in the general > scheme of things. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
