[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

[Alfons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:07:11AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:30:40 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
>
> > Plus, it's completely useless for GUIs in a separate process, while LV2
> > is not (it's just a data file, anything can load it, it's not even
> > architechture dependent).
> > 
> > Just my two cents, but definitely not the right thing.
> 
> That's possibly a bit harsh. I think it's reasonable to say that based on
> our experiences of LADSPA we know that's not the best way to go.

If the GUI is in a separate process and connected by e.g. OSC, it
could as well be on a machine that doesn't have the plugin files.
Or that has a different version of them (for perfectly good reasons).
To ensure consistency the GUI should get its plugin descriptions from
the host anyway. This works even with POL (Plain Old Ladspa).

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FA

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