Re: [LAD] [ANN] aseqmm 0.2.0 released

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
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