[LAD] RDF libraries, was Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

[David Robillard]

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 19:40 +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 07:22 PM, David Robillard wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 12:08 +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> 
> >> I will try and submit a patch to remove glib. It'll take some time because I
> >> have dozens of other things to do, but I will work on this. I had a quick look
> >> at sord, it seems it only needs glib's sequence and hash table. Is this correct,
> >> or will you need some more utilities?
> > 
> > Overall I need sequence, hash table (or hash table like thing, I'll
> > probably use a radix tree), and module loading (currently still POSIX in
> > SLV2).
> 
> From the docs I see that using GModule only adds Windows support

Well, yeah. "Portable" usually means "have to deal with *%&$# windows",
otherwise straight POSIX would be fine :)

> , unless you
> also care about HP-UX. So, a small abstraction layer around dlopen() and
> LoadLibrary() should suffice, no?

Yep

> > No rush, I may make the relevant lib myself soon if you don't beat me to
> > it, I just don't want to hold up the next release for it.
> 
> No rush here as well. I can work on a patch, but on the other side I don't want
> to interfere if you're in the middle of your work.

I am deliberately trying to avoid doing that bit of work, because I'll
get lost off in la-la computer science land making data structures and
benchmarking them and stuff, and not making the LAD related releases I
really need to be making.

... I do enjoy that la-la land though. Soon enough. :)

-dr