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

[David Robillard]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:55 +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> Hereby I propose some default paths which could be used, in the hope
> that API authors lurking around here might want to recommend them and
> host authors might want to use them:
> 
> LADSPA
>   Unix-like OSes with FHS/Unix-like filesystem layout:
> /usr/lib/ladspa, /usr/local/lib/ladspa, ~/.ladspa
>   Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\LADSPA, %APPDATA%\LADSPA
>   Mac OS X: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA, ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA
> 
> DSSI
>   Unix-like OSes with FHS/Unix-like filesystem layout: /usr/lib/dssi,
> /usr/local/lib/dssi, ~/.dssi
>   Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\DSSI, %APPDATA%\DSSI
>   Mac OS X: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/DSSI, ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/DSSI
> 
> LV2
>   Unix-like OSes with FHS/Unix-like filesystem layout: /usr/lib/lv2,
> /usr/local/lib/lv2, ~/.lv2
>   Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\LV2, %APPDATA%\LV2
>   Mac OS X: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2, ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2

Note the order matters for PATH-like variables such as these.

The LV2 discovery paths are documented here, FWIW:

http://lv2plug.in/docs/index.php?title=Filesystem_Locations

Cheers,

-dr