[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

[Steve Harris]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:47:33PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > You could do pluginUri#portShortName, it's a fairly common convention (eg.
> > in HTML). But youre only allowed a small set of characters after the #.
> >  
> > > I think the regexp you mentioned there is fine, though I think we should
> > > add one separator character other than underscore for various reasons.
> > > ":" maybe?
> > 
> > I'd rather not, I'm not sure its legal in Pd (they get bitten by the port
> > name thing too), and its not in C. Pure selfinterest, but My LADSPA code
> > is about 50% generated from XML, and I use short names internally for C
> > symbols.
> 
> Well, at least one kind of separator character is required (for big
> plugins).  If it can't be ":", then I don't know what, but there needs
> to be something.  Maybe "."?  If you want to keep it as a valid C
> identifier I guess we're pretty much screwed, aside from defining __ to
> be interpreted as a sort of heirarchialish separator.

I'm missing the need for heirachicalness. : is probably not safe in OSC
either.
 
> I'm fully in support of putting any and all metadata outside the C file,
> but the unique identifier isn't metadata, it should be in the code.  A
> trivial OSC controlled plugin host (which would make a good bundled
> example client for the SDK) would need it.

It's only /a/ unique identifier. We can't loose the index number as thats
the efficent way you access the LADSPA_Data pointers. Only one can be
canonical.
 
- Steve