[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

[Dave Robillard]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:38 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> This is why the "plugin" is really a directory, all the stuff in there is
> neccesary.

On the plugin bundle thing, I've got working C code that takes a path to
the directory, parses manifest.ttl, gleams the available plugin DLLs and
data files from that, and enumerates all the plugins in the DLL.

We need to clarify some things about bundles themselves:

- What is the significance of the bundle name itself? (We need to avoid
clashes somehow)
- Do they contain one plugin variant, or any number?
- One DLL or many?
- What's the relation between the two above points?

I'm not sure about number-of-plugins-per-bundle (though putting all of,
say, swh-plugins in one bundle seems counter to the intent to me?) but I
will suggest we reccommend that one DLL contains only variants of one
plugin (or a group of very similar plugins).  Reasoning is to avoid
things like cmt.so which has a huge number of completely unrelated
plugins in one lib, meaning a host has to link in all that crap just to
use a simple amplifier plugin, which is no good.

-DR-