[LAD] LV2 specification packaging

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Thu Mar 22 21:11:59 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 19:42 +0100, Albert Graef wrote:
> On 03/22/2012 04:47 AM, David Robillard wrote:
> > Pretty strong consensus is that the LV2 specs being a bunch of packages
> > is a nuisance.  So, I plan to start releasing them all in one package.
> 
> Good move.
> 
> To avoid any confusion about the packages in each release, you could 
> just accompany each tarball with a manifest that lists the version 
> information; I guess that this could be generated automatically from the 
> version numbers in the corresponding manifest.ttl files. And you could 
> maybe offer a little download page where this information is readily 
> available in table form so that users and package maintainers can 
> quickly find the version(s) that they want/need.

I suppose this would do well enough to resolve the "what version do I
need?" problem.  Auto-generation of whatever from the data is naturally
easy with LV2 anyway.

Thanks,

-dr





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