[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA "Unique" IDs

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 29 09:36:59 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:36:41 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 9:00 am, Steve Harris wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:17:03AM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > >   /* This identifier can be used as a unique, case-sensitive
> > >      identifier for the plugin type within the plugin file.
> > > Plugin types should be identified by file and label rather than
> > > by index or plugin name, which may be changed in new plugin
> > >      versions. Labels must not contain white-space characters. */
> > >
> > > To me this makes it pretty plain that filename and label is at
> > > least intended to be a valid unique ID within your filesystem,
> > > and in practice I'd expect it to be an effective id for the
> > > plugin anywhere in the world.
> >
> > I think it should be: local filenames are unique, and labels are
> > required to be unique in the file.
> 
> Is that different from what I said?

No, sorry, pre-coffee abiguous grammar, I wasn't correcting you, I meant:

I think it should be, *because* local filenames are unique, and labels are
required to be unique in the file.

But it was also a pretty pointless comment. Sorry.

/me gets coffee

- Steve



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