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: > > > 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.
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. > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
