[linux-audio-dev] RDF for CAPS plugins

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:51:20PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote:
> The 0.3.0 CAPS release actually comes with an rdf file supposed to 
> label the enumerated int ports (the Cabinet model switches and the 
> SweepVF filter modes).

Argh! I already had 0.3.0, but apparently the gentoo ebuild fails to
install the rdf file.  I'll file a gentoo bug.

I merged yours with mine and yep, it works - now I get both
categorization and useful dropdown widgets on those four plugins.
Yay!

btw, the guy that wrote yours didn't apparently understand
how the categories work. I had it mostly right by copying
other files, but I just now stumbled on where the taxonomy is
actually defined, it's at:

/usr/share/ladspa/rdf/ladspa.rdfs

...  which apparently comes with liblrdf.


> Re: caps.rdf in general --
> 
> Paul, your permission assumed I'll recycle some of your python code, 
> to be run when making the CAPS 'dist' target. A better caps.rdf will 
> thus be in 0.3.1 (coming to a theatre near you sometime this year).

Of course.  

It should be possible to stub out the rdf for enumerated parameters by
looking at the "ports:" output of analyseplugin. That might be handy.
 
> Steve, are the dc:creator, dc:rights, dc:title tags necessary? Paul's 
> caps.rdf simply copies the data found in caps.so -- is it possible to 
> simply eliminate this redundancy?

dc (dublin core) metadata is generally optional.
I just put those in without thinking because it was easy to parse out.
I like having at least the title, it makes the rdf much more
human-readable.

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Paul Winkler
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