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

[Stefano D'Angelo]

2009/6/24 Steve Harris <steve at plugin.org.uk>:
> On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:24, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/24 Steve Harris <steve at plugin.org.uk>:
>>>
>>> http://lv2plug.in/docs/index.php?title=Filesystem_Locations
>>> http://www.ladspa.org/ladspa_sdk/shared_plugins.html
>>
>> Ah, good, I didn't know about those pages :-) (maybe link the lv2 one
>> in the specification page on lv2plug.in?)
>
> It's linked from the main page of the documentation:
> http://lv2plug.in/docs/index.php?title=Main_Page
> That seems like the most appropriate place to me.

Ok, my bad.

>> Well, if we can do the same with Windows, LRDF and DSSI (Chris?), that
>> would be awesome (for example, IIRC Audacity looks for LADSPA plugins
>> in one of its subdirectories on Windows, which is bad IMO).
>
> LRDF defines where the RDF files should be, /usr/share/ladspa something I
> think. It's obsoleted by LV2 anyway though. Converting LADSPA+LRDF plugins
> to LV2 is easy.

I can't find a place where such definition is made.

Then, AFAIK, TAP plugins and Rubberband have no LV2 port yet, and
maybe not everybody wants to port their plugins to LV2?

Stefano