[LAD] How to develop guis for LV2?

David Robillard dave at drobilla.net
Sun Nov 8 23:31:41 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 16:44 -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, David Robillard wrote:
> 
> > pretty good idea.  All that is needed as far as maintenance goes is for
> > hosts to supply a simple turtle document that says "I implement foo and
> > bar and baz extensions".  The rest can be compiled into whatever fancy
> > human readable form you want, for every single plugin out there, by a
> 
> I would vote for XML for this, to better utilize all the parsers, 
> transformers, and presentation mechanisms already written and in place. 
> This isn't anti-turtle FUD, either.  Turtle looks like it was a good 
> choice for the interface definitions.

No.  Everything LV2 is Turtle.  Using a different format would just be
annoying and force the use of multiple technologies where one would do
and is guaranteed to already be used.

-dr





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