Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Lars Luthman
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 05:02 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > Benno Senoner wrote: > > Everyone is invited to add his own point of view and I hope that the > > outcome will be a positive collaboration between LV2 and Reaper. > Well, Benno, what do you think about the responses so far? Is the spirit >

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Phillips
Benno Senoner wrote: > Everyone is invited to add his own point of view and I hope that the > outcome will be a positive collaboration between LV2 and Reaper. Well, Benno, what do you think about the responses so far? Is the spirit of open collaboration and the welcoming attitude alive & well her

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Phillips
Lars Luthman wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 05:02 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > >> Benno Senoner wrote: >> >>> Everyone is invited to add his own point of view and I hope that the >>> outcome will be a positive collaboration between LV2 and Reaper. >>> >> Well, Benno, what do you th

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread t_w_
Dave Phillips wrote: > 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 close

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Phillips wrote: > > >> 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

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Pieter Palmers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Phillips wrote: > >> 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 no

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Steve Harris
On 22 Jan 2008, at 12:50, Pieter Palmers wrote: > > We do have to keep in mind that we are talking about a LV2 'standard' > here. A standard is generally conceived to make different (competing) > products compatible with each other. Drafting a standard always > requires > competitors to work toge

Re: [LAD] [LAU] one more to watch ?

2008-01-22 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Jan 22, 2008, at 2:45 PM, M-.-n wrote: > more linux music on the go ? > http://www.openpandora.org > http://pandora.bluwiki.com/ definitely one to watch .. i hear a rumour that devboards are out and about for this already .. should be good to go in march if all goes well, and the world d

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Juuso Alasuutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Turn LASH into a D-Bus service daemon. Do you mean lashd becoming a D-Bus service? If so, do you imagine having logfile like of jackdbus? I think it is quite important what will be changes for users of LASH. The things you mentioned are changes ei

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Lars Luthman hat gesagt: // Lars Luthman wrote: > If I've come across as a grumpy old bastard I apologise, because that > was not my intention. The thing is that I'm just not particularly > interested in software that can only be used in the way the original > author allows it to be used. I

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Benno Senoner
Well Dave P, what should I say ? I think the attitude of certain LAD-ers is one of the reasons why linux audio will remain an irrelevant niche for a long time to come. How can you you create a standard like LV2 and then make statements like "reaper is the enemy" ? I think LV2 devs did not do their

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Robillard
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 07:49 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dave Phillips wrote: > > > > > >> 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 a

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Juuso Alasuutari
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:39:20 Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Juuso Alasuutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - Turn LASH into a D-Bus service daemon. > > Do you mean lashd becoming a D-Bus service? If so, do you imagine > having logfile like of jackdbus? I didn't quite understand what you mean by

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Darren Landrum
I thought we were all on the same side? I hate politics, and this email was not the first one I wanted to send to this list since rejoining. The fact is, though, that I wanted to leave the Windows world behind and go all-Linux for my music making, and I am now regretting that decision. What hav

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Juuso Alasuutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * auto-launching without logfile means no proper handling of lashified >>apps stdout/stderr. It should have logfile, with prefixing output of >>apps. > > Capturing the clients' debug messages would indeed be helpful. How do you > think it s

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:18 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: > I think the attitude of certain LAD-ers is one of the reasons why > linux audio will > remain an irrelevant niche for a long time to come. How about you put in names, coward? You imply that there is some kind of overall linux audio thing.

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Robillard
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:18 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: > Well Dave P, what should I say ? > I think the attitude of certain LAD-ers is one of the reasons why > linux audio will > remain an irrelevant niche for a long time to come. > How can you you create a standard like LV2 and then make stateme

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Arnold Krille
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 schrieb Darren Landrum: > As for me, my interest is in DSP and coding plug-ins. I got started > playing around in Reaper's Jesusonic. Now I want to grow my skills in a > useful direction. Is that going to be LV2, or VST3? I wish I knew. That choice is pretty easy: Do y

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 18:56 +0200, Juuso Alasuutari wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:39:20 Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Capturing the clients' debug messages would indeed be helpful. How do you > think it should be handled? > Idiot-proof capturing of stdout/err could probably only work if the c

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 12:25 -0500, Darren Landrum wrote: > I thought we were all on the same side? There might be tendencies, but it's not one side. > * Ardour looks, behaves, and has almost the exact same feature set as it > did two years ago. (Nobody in the commercial world is still using a >

Re: [LAD] LV2 "isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 12:25 -0500, Darren Landrum wrote: > * Ardour looks, behaves, and has almost the exact same feature set as it > did two years ago. Really? I guess I forgot to read all the press releases for a bunch of commercial apps that are so full of new features. Oh yes, PT 7.4 added "

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:39 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > * lash is of mercy of libjack and crashing jackd often causes lashd >kill. This is just wrong. You're right, but it shouldn't be worked around. If energy is going to be expended on this problem, it should be expended on fixing jackd

Re: [LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

2008-01-22 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:18 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > > In other words, provided that my conjectures are true, I could see ALSA > > becoming simply an API to access the soundcard and everything else being > > moved out of the ALSA which IMHO could help spur some of the ostensibly > > bo

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 18:56 +0200, Juuso Alasuutari wrote: >> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:39:20 Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > >> Capturing the clients' debug messages would indeed be helpful. How do you >> think it should be handled? > >> Idiot-proof capturing of

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Juuso Alasuutari
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 19:18:10 Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Juuso Alasuutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Idiot-proof capturing of stdout/err could probably only work if the > > client process was executed from a wrapper. It could be accomplished with > > the D-Bus service file, though. If all

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:58 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 18:56 +0200, Juuso Alasuutari wrote: > >> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:39:20 Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > > > >> Capturing the clients' debug messages would indeed be helpful. How

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:39 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: >> * lash is of mercy of libjack and crashing jackd often causes lashd >>kill. This is just wrong. > > You're right, but it shouldn't be worked around. If energy is going to > be expended on this p

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Juuso Alasuutari
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 21:10:55 Bob Ham wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:58 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > > Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Applications are already launched from a wrapper within lashd (what it > > > terms the "loader".) It calls fork() and exec(). The only thing

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Juuso Alasuutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 21:10:55 Bob Ham wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:58 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: >> > Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > Applications are already launched from a wrapper within lashd (what it >> > > terms the "

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * lash does not preserve X11 related properties of apps, like on what >>screen (dual-head) they were. > > Nor should it. The X11 system is nothing whatsoever to do with LASH, > intentionally. From LASH's perspective, anything to do with X11 is > entir

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:40 +0200, Juuso Alasuutari wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 19:18:10 Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > > Juuso Alasuutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is where I believe we both agree that turning LASH into a D-Bus > > > service will help. The session handler shouldn't

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:11 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > More generally, LASH isn't a frontend for JACK. > > What about the jack watchdog? What does get killed by it? A good example. What does the watchdog do, exactly? It isn't a frontend. I doesn't

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:32 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> * lash does not preserve X11 related properties of apps, like on what > >>screen (dual-head) they were. > > > > Nor should it. The X11 system is nothing whatsoever to do with LASH, > > inten

Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

2008-01-22 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:21 +0200, Juuso Alasuutari wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 21:10:55 Bob Ham wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:58 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > > > Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Applications are already launched from a wrapper within lashd (what it >

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 12:49:52 pm 01/22/08 Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dave Phillips wrote: > > > > > >> 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, yo

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ? " LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 17:10:42 schrieb Thorsten Wilms: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:18 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: > > I think the attitude of certain LAD-ers is one of the reasons why > > linux audio will > > remain an irrelevant niche for a long time to come. > > How about you put in names,

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread pete shorthose
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:23:25 + "Patrick Shirkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12:49:52 pm 01/22/08 Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dave Phillips wrote: > > > > > > > > >> So responding with sarcasm, "We'll do it my way or not at all" > > >> con

Re: [LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Robillard
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:23 +, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > 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

Re: [LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

2008-01-22 Thread holborn
El Tuesday 22 January 2008 18:03:55 Ivica Ico Bukvic escribió: > > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:18 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > > In other words, provided that my conjectures are true, I could see ALSA > > > becoming simply an API to access the soundcard and everything else > > > being moved out

Re: [LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

2008-01-22 Thread Lars Luthman
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 03:06 +, holborn wrote: > Maybe some day the RT patches will be inside the kernel in all of the > distros, > and the desktop users will run linux audio apps without "external" problems. > > Can the linuxaudio consortium put some pressure right now to the kernel team? T

Re: [LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 04:11 +0100, Lars Luthman wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 03:06 +, holborn wrote: > > Maybe some day the RT patches will be inside the kernel in all of the > > distros, > > and the desktop users will run linux audio apps without "external" problems. > > > > Can the linux

Re: [LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

2008-01-22 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
> Can the linuxaudio consortium put some pressure right now to the kernel > team? FWIW, I think in FOSS community this kind of an approach is generally regarded as bad and as such they have a tendency to backfire. The best way to move things in a desired direction is to actually provide strong and