[linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Dec 8 05:51:00 UTC 2002


On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:02:07 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > > Why? What is it that LADSPA does that would be so complicated that an 
> > > instrument API must not support it?
> > 
> > Nothing, OAPI or whatever will be a superset I imagine, but that implies
> > that LADSPA will still be simpler.
> 
> yeah, and I want to make it easy for an OAPI (I HATE that name - open to
> ideas..) host to use LADSPA plugins.  That is very important.

Me too, not a very good name.

Your more immediate problem is making it easy for a LADSPA host to host
[insert name here] plugins. There are a lot of LADSPA hosts, and zero
[...] hosts. 

- Steve



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