[LAD] Non Session Management

[Emanuel Rumpf]

Am 27. März 2012 21:41 schrieb Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>:
>...
> Nor would I want the the shared data to be duplicated
>
In my scenario, this would match EXTERNAL_REF

It would only be copied to Lfiles directory, if modified.
Obviously there are cases, where this is not desirable
and destructive editing is preferable.
The app could offer this as an option, as you are pointing out below.


> - not only
> because it's a wast of disk space, but also because it may be
> reviewed and modified as well (e.g. correcting bad edits) and
> such changes should be picked up by all sessions using the data.
>

> My POV about 'external' data (that is data not saved as part of
> a session) is that if the user (or an app on behalf of the user)
> declares that some data is external to the session then the SM
> should just accept this as a fact an go on doing its thing. It
> is then of course the user's responsability to take care of such
> data if a session is transferred or archived.
>


> I would expect a SM to have a tool to 'ls' a session (providing
> a list of required apps etc.), and ideally such a tool should be
> able to mention any dependencies on external data.
>
Another useful tool:  ' list-session-deps  Lfile/audio.wav '
that would list all sessions and applications with current-references
to that file.

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E.R.