[LAD] LV2 adoption

Steve Harris steve at plugin.org.uk
Wed Jan 23 14:50:32 UTC 2008


On 23 Jan 2008, at 14:35, Dave Robillard wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:10 +0000, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
>> Steve Harris wrote:
>>
>>> To my mind it's better for us to develop a large suite of tools and
>>> plugins to demonstrate the viability and advantages before we go
>>
>> I think we indeed need lots of testing tools - like debugging
>> hosts/plugins spiked with lots of pre/postcondition checks, or even  
>> some
>> validity checking libraries that could be easily inserted (#ifdef'ed)
>> into "real" hosts/plugins, to check plugin/host behaviour in "real  
>> world".
>
> IMO all the descriptions of restrictions in lv2.ttl that are currently
> in comments should be in machine readable form for this reason.   
> Having
> that stuff in comments only is pretty silly, really.

That's a good idea, obviously - but it can be hard to express those  
kinds of restrictions in a machine readable form, even in RDF :)

Also, it will tend to complicate the schema, which is currently quite  
simple.

Perhaps it would make a good adjunct file? tv2-restrictions.ttl or  
something?

- Steve



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