On 12/30/2009 05:52 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> On 12/30/2009 12:39 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Paul Davis wrote: >>> >>>> i notice that SDLmm has not had a commit in nearly a year, and appears >>>> to have been named under a similar belief as your own. >>>> >>> Is it about belief? There is something about that in the Universal >>> Declaration of Human Rights. Article 18: "Everyone has the right to >>> freedom of thought, conscience and religion". I would also add the GUI >>> toolkit and frameworks. >>> >>> Maybe you know the text of a Law, or a sacred text source of the absolute >>> truth, where it is stated that a library name ending in "mm" must not be >>> used by those not belonging to the congregation of true believers, under >>> pain of heresy ? >>> >> I think it is more about the numbers game. Basically there is a pattern >> that has been established by developers who have chosen to end their >> apps names with mm. Your app falls outside of the pattern so it may be >> confusing for people who come across it to learn that it is not adhering >> to the pattern. >> > You are right, of course it is about numbers. There is a majority of people > imposing their point of view over a single one, that is alone and looks easy > to beat. > > I can understand the frustration of a confused victim that reads "aseqmm" and > thinks it is something different of what it really is, then he reads the > description that says "This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library > sequencer interface, using Qt4 objects, idioms and style". This poor victim > must be protected, even if that means stoning me preventively. >
Probably a more likely scenario is that a user who is knowledgable in such things will read the description and think "Hmmm, that's a strange name for such a library, I wonder what other interesting design choices have been made". Btw, you are free to perceive this as constructive feedback or simply criticism. I have no intent on the latter though. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd > So, I am thinking about changing the name of the library for "Lapidation" in > the next release. It will be interesting to write a little chapter for the > documentation, explaining the name's history and why it had to be changed. > What do you think? > > >> An analogy could be a sushi restaurant called "Bobs meat extravaganza". >> Technically they do serve some meat in the restaurant but it's probably >> going to be confusing for those who like to consume copious amounts of >> beef. >> > I don't imagine a crowd of angry people complaining the restaurant's owner to > force him to change the name. If you don't like the meal or the name, you > should avoid dinning there. That's all. > > I feel part of the community of Linux Audio Developers. I know that there is a > majority using certain toolkits and technologies, they are different to mine. > I'm alone or among a little minority. And so what? Are we developers or > sheep? > > Regards, > Pedro > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev