Steve Harris:
Several people have suggested that LADSPA is not a great name for what we
are calling LADSPA 2. Reasons for this include:
The L, it's not really linux specific, and though /we/ know that its the L
of LAD, its not obvious to people outside.
The S, it ain't really going to be simple. For someone like me, who is
neck deep in triples on a daily basis, 2.0 seems like the paragon of
simplicity, but I can imagine 2.9 being quite a beast.
LADSPA, (pron. ladspuh?) is a bit of a mouthful, and not exactly catchy.
2.0, it's not going to be obvious to all users that 2.0 and 1.0 are binary
incompatible. I'm not sure everyone thinks in major and minor revisions.
So, with some trepidation I suggest that we think about naming, with the
proviso that if we haven't reached consensus by May 10th we default to
LADSPA 2.0, and live with the pain.
I don't agree about taking away the "L". Ladspa is not linux-specific, but
it has certainly originated from linux, and has the best support in
linux software. If linux dissapears before the ladspa format, we can at
least still remember linux through the name of ladspa...
Regarding your argumentation about the prononounciation, I think its a bit
anglocentric language-vice. In most other countries (scandinavian,
german, spanish, belgian, dutch, slavic (I might be wrong about some of
these though)), where the "a" is actually pronounced like the round "ah"
(and very short in this case), and you don't have to move the mouth that
much as in english (and especially in american english), "ladspa" sounds
really cool and is not very difficult to say. A good solution to this
problem would be if the english speakers started to allways say the more
common rounder "ah" instead of "a", not only for ladspa, but for all
acronyms.
I think the argument about S is valid enough though, but not a good enough
argument to change a name we all have learned and love(?). As an
alternative, we can change the meaning of s into something else, like
Super, Second, Sophisticated, System, Steve, Sourcecode, Syntax,
Structure, Success, Superb, Superior. To name a few, well, I'm sure there
are better alternatives.
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My suggestion is that we ressurect the XAP name
(http://www.google.com/search?q=lad+xap)
It stood for Xap Audio Plugin IIRC.
Pros: it's short*, relatively unused** and pronouncable***
Cons: xap.{com,org,net} will have gone long ago (too short), theres a
small ammount of baggage.
I think its too short. Its not cool, and its hard to remember from the
pronounciation.
