[LAD] State of Plugin API's

[David Robillard]

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 08:34 -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > i meant to use a name. LV2-E<N> would simply mean LV2 core + {some
> > defined set of extensions}. plugin and host authors could then talk
> > about using "LV2-E<N>".
> > the E<N> part merely designates a particular set of extensions, which
> > might be 2 extensions, or 100.
> 
> So... something like this?
> 
> LV2-EBasic := LV2 core + URI Map + MIDI Event
> 
> LV2-EPlus := LV2-EBasic + External UI
> 
> LV2-EExtreme := LV2-EPlus + dynparam + Progress
> 
> LV2-EVideo := LV2-EBasic + SMTP + Transport

Don't forget LV2-Premium-Turbo-2000-Professional-Edition

> BTW:  Some of the extension API's seem more like plumbing.  Resources for 
> communicating between plugins.  Things that have little relevence to the 
> end user.  For example, the URI Map seems like it's just a utility for an 
> extension or a plugin -- but the host doesn't necc. need to add support 
> for it.  Is this right?

The host must support it (if host and plugin don't need to agree on it,
doesn't really make sense to be an extension anyway).  The extension
defines a way for hosts to provide a URI<->int mapping facility to
plugins.  It's generically very useful, and I would suspect that
many/most future extensions will depend on it.

-dr