This ladspa-rdf stuff works? Was: Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP-plugins reverb presets

[Matthias Nagorni]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Steve Harris wrote:

> > there is one: it seems consensus that making RDF mandatory for
> > hosts should be avoided.
> 
> Absolutly. I think scales and enumerations are not mandatory (Matthias
> disagrees, but I dont see any evidence ot the contrary).

Just as my personal conclusion of that thread:

We do not lose anything if we accept either the proposal by Tim or Fons or 
something in between. Both proposals are binary compatible with the 
current standard. Plugin-writers and host-developers would still have the 
choice to use the extension or to ignore it and use e.g. the RDF extension 
instead. And I doubt that new plugin writer get scared by some slightly 
extended ladspa.h, at least as long as it keeps to be as well-documented 
as it is now. I will now shut up and hope that an extension will be agreed 
upon. Once Tom (and hopefully others) follow the new standard, I will 
update AMS. And keep in mind: Extending LADSPA does not mean that all 
plugins need to be modified. It's only that cases like e.g. the reverb 
presets can be fixed in a clean way.

Matthias

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