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

Stefano D'Angelo zanga.mail at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 03:25:48 UTC 2009


2009/6/24 David Robillard <dave at drobilla.net>:
> 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.

Apart from the "evaluate the path variable before using the default" I
don't see how the order should matter. Am I missing something?

Stefano



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