[PD] opinions on the issue of concurrent implementations (was: getting sample rate of file loaded into an array)

[Roman Haefeli]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 13:16 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
[...]
> > Also, I wanted to know which is mature enough so that it's
> > worth to write bug reports to its author. This consumes quite some time
> > and I think everyone who discovers that there are many solutions for her
> > problem needs to invest some time to find out which works best.
> > Personally, I think this is lost time, because not only it needs twice
> > as much time to implement the same thing twice, every user needs to
> > figure out the small differences.
> > Well aware, that this (my) opinion is likely not applicable to others, I
> > tend to think that patches are too much treated like holy cows whose
> > breaking should be avoided by any means. If it turns out, that my
> > patches use an inferior of concurrent implementations, I'd be happy to
> > switch them to the new class, especially if it helps to keep the future
> > clean.
>  
> Advocate for the superior external, write crystal clear documentation
> for it, and write crystal clear documentation for the inferior one to explain
> why to use the other one.  Then get the authors to accept your doc changes
> (or doc creation as the case may be).  That's the only way to ensure that
> your lost time doesn't become other users' lost time.

You are right. I agree with you that this is probably the best (most
pragmatic / most realistic) way to have an influence as a non-ext-dev on
the issue.
 
> I'll give you an example later when I update the arraysize help patch.

I'll happily check it, when it is ready.

Thanks for your thoughts.
Roman