[LAD] RFC: Default discovery paths for LADSPA, LRDF, LV2 and DSSI (and more?)

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:06:37AM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:

> Well, it's just a question for your own judgment.  Regardless of the
> sort of identifier you use, when you change it your plugin will appear
> to be a different plugin, so you need to decide whether a change is
> big enough that your new version can't directly stand in for the old.

That is indeed the real question and it does not
always have clear answer.

AFAIK, there's no version number for a LADSPA,
plugin, apart from what gets encoded into the
name or label.

I had an unclear situation recently with the new
release of the 4-band parametric EQ. It has the same
parameters and parameter ranges as the previous one,
but the mapping from the combination gain/bandwidth
to a particular FR has changed - there are different
ways to do this, all of them logical and consistent,
they just give a different 'feel'.

So the new version will work perfectly in e.g. an
Ardour session using the old one, but you may want
to re-adjust its settings.

Compatible or not ?

Ciao

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FA

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