[LAD] Feature request for FIL-Plugins

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-07-07 19:51:29 +0200:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> 
> > I'm just afraid that it might end up as a pretty much app specific
> > thing, similar to MESS and RHSP.
> 
> That would be perfectly OK for me. I'm not after popularity,
> and I'm writing these things in the first place for myself.
> 
> > What's the point of a plugin API
> > 'standard' when there's a single host supporting the thing?
> 
> Apart from the host(s) I'll provide (one of which is an app on
> its own, the other a pure plugin host) that would probably be
> the case anyway. 
> 
> Actually, for a host author implementing this standard directly
> would be easier than trying to squeeze it into an existing LV2
> framework - some things are quite different.
> 
> > It doesn't help plugin developers either if they have to
> > chose between 5-7 plugin APIs, knowing that, whatever they
> > chose, only a, often tiny, subset of programs will be able
> > to load the plugin.
> 
> That again is not something that keeps me awake at night.
> In fact it would provide a form of natural selection. The 
> main point of this series of plugins will be *quality*.
> I'm not really waiting to see the N-th 'I-dont-understand-it-
> but-copied-it-from-some-textbook' algorithm being added to it.
> There are already enough of those, and that in itself is a
> good reason for not wanting to be associated with existing
> standards.
> 
> Ciao,

But I'm sure that you see the benefit of a single plugin standard as VST
pretty much is on windows. Anyway, there's no easy way to solve the
multiple-standards thing in Linux land apparently.

One thing that I'm wondering about though, what about NASPRO? Do you
think it might be able to wrap around your plugins and bridge to lv2?
http://naspro.atheme.org/about
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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