[LAD] Plugin buffer size restrictions

Tim Goetze tim at quitte.de
Mon Jun 4 08:13:13 UTC 2012


[David Robillard]

>On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 11:37 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote:
>> As a plugin author, I consider all assumptions or guarantees about
>> the block size useless unless the plugin can tell the host exactly
>> what it wants, and get it everytime (and I'm not even sure it would be
>> worth it).
>
>LV2's feature mechanism is specifically designed so plugins can
>*require* features if they need to.  A plugin that requires a feature
>will not be instantiated if it is not available.

Hmmm, thanks for clearing that up; I suspected as much.

Cheers, Tim



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