[LAD] "enhanced event port" LV2 extension proposal

[Dave Robillard]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:19 +0000, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> Lars Luthman wrote:
> 
> > _Any_ structure that isn't just a dumb array of bytes will be unsafe to
> > move between machines because of endianness.
> 
> A bridge can compare the architectures of the bridged machines, and
> refuse to continue if they're different.
> 
> That kind of bridge could be written by a well trained chimpanzee and
> work for (perhaps) majority of cases. Of course, to work for *all*
> cases, the serialization would be needed.
> 
> Also, if the buffer is "simple" (as in: no pointers or handles
> whatsoever), the serialization doesn't need to be implemented or invoked! :)

Serialisation (be it for a network or to a file or whatever) is an event
type specific thing; orthogonal problem.  OSC, for example, precisely
defines the binary format of a message for network transmission.

New event type extensions can define such things on their own as well.

-DR-