[LAD] Non Session Management

[David Robillard]

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 15:29 +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> Am 28. März 2012 20:53 schrieb David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
> >
> > It's sooo complicated because it forces everything involved to use a
> > special file finding and/or loading interface.
> >
> wrong - apps only tell the SM about files used externally - that's all.

In order to do anything useful, most obviously archive, the SM needs the
ability to change those paths.

The only realistic way of achieving this is via links.  Otherwise you
would have to design a "move files" protocol, and in order to
archive/move/etc you'd have to launch every app and use that protocol to
manipulate the session state, because the SM doesn't know every
program's file format.

Not only is that a huge implementation burden on apps, it's clunky and
fragile; a big silly mess to do what tar or a 10 line Python script
could do.

Not a realistic solution.

-dr